conflict

Well, Tommy can do her hair but, by design, can never replace Mickey, and that conflict between Valerie and Tommy underlines her loss and her denial of Mickey’s passing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

We don’t want political or religious differences to permanently destroy our relationship with him, and we want to leave the door open for reconciliation without creating additional conflict or pressure.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

There are 12 races remaining on the 2026 schedule, though uncertainty remains over whether Qatar and Abu Dhabi will go ahead because of the conflict in the Middle East.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

For decades, the Department of Homeland Security has granted TPS designations for foreign-born people who can’t return to their home countries because of unsafe conditions such as armed conflict or natural disasters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

By the time the four-year conflict ended, four million men had taken up weapons.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

At Guggenheim, Walter’s outside investments raised questions for compliance personnel responsible for reviewing potential conflicts of interest across Guggenheim units, clients and employees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Taipei's announcement comes as governments around the world boost defence spending in the face of intensifying conflicts, and growing concern about US commitment to the Asia-Pacific region.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

They sold gold, ivory and ultimately enslaved Africans, often those captured in local conflicts, in exchange for the manufactured goods brought mainly by the British and Dutch, including textiles, alcohol and guns.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

That’s mainly because global refining capacity for finished fuels is severely constrained by geopolitical conflicts and facility disruptions, even as crude supplies remain relatively stable.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026

Both of them had spent their lives studying the history of goblin-elf conflicts.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

That conclusion conflicted with the prevailing view at the time, which held that the universe was static and had remained essentially the same throughout cosmic history.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Part of their unofficial relationship homework involves field missions that spark heated conversations about masculine insecurity and Diarra’s conflicted desires about motherhood.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

I’m conflicted — do I exclude her from my will?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

And as dramatists, they’re uniquely positioned to appreciate the conflicted loyalties and communal tensions of American life in dramatic rather than dogmatic terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I went to bed feeling utterly conflicted and, for the first time in years, I was scared for us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Though she didn’t go into the details of her own experience, merely owning it drew a conflicting response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

It fell apart within a week, predictably, as the two sides acted on conflicting interpretations of its central provisions.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Prior to Blanche's two posts on Sunday, Trump himself gave conflicting statements on the future of both the fund and his nomination of Blanche to be America's top law enforcement official.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

He also pointed to an earlier statement that noted that an initial version of New York’s AI measure would have forced companies to “navigate conflicting state and federal requirements.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan