friction
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Your husband appears to have had an easy life, without much financial friction, given that his education was paid for by his parents.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hyaline cartilage is smooth and slippery, allowing bones to move against one another with very little friction in joints such as the ankles, hips, shoulders and parts of the knee.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ralph's parents grease bottle teats to avoid damaging his mouth and turn his baby-grows inside out to avoid friction from the seams.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Sometimes, there was friction as the brothers rolled out new concepts to veterans set in their ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
And the friction between the wheels and the tracks.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
He added he was motivated to build a better model of care where "technology addressed some of the issues and frictions in the care sector".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
And there are real frictions in rental markets as well, from limited supply to the risk of having to move—something you might be willing to pay a lot to avoid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
On the one hand, the high rates may be the result of temporary supply-chain frictions and energy insecurity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The book explores the performance of niceness, class, intergenerational frictions and how technology makes vengeance not just possible but almost exceedingly easy in the modern age.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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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