friction
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Unlike previous Amazon debt deals, last week’s didn’t breeze through the market without friction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Which brings me back to that ridiculously inconvenient ferry and what I call the friction theory of friendship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The deeper force is the war on friction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Sheinbaum's administration opened an investigation, still ongoing, into whether the presence of the agents represented a violation of national security laws, creating fresh diplomatic friction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
This strange fact is caused by an electric charge which surrounds the spacecraft, and which in turn is caused by the great friction produced when the spacecraft hits the atmosphere at high speed.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
Europe and China will gauge whether trade frictions can be resolved through talks Monday when top EU trade official Maros Sefcovic hosts his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Brussels for day-long discussions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Sir Keir had wanted to seal a deal to row back many of the post-Brexit frictions on food and farm trade that have impacted the cross-Channel trade flows.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The EU in recent years has tried to tackle the imbalance through higher tariffs and a wave of anti-subsidy probes in the clean tech sector, leading to increased trade frictions between Brussels and Beijing.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
As artificial intelligence makes life frictionless, we risk removing the very frictions that keep human beings healthy: effort, challenge, learning and forward motion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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