conflict

Example Sentences

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While Iran has said "non-hostile vessels" can use the waterway, the ongoing conflict - in which several ships have been attacked - has halted normal transport activity.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Carter feared conflict above all and even opposed sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Agriculture sector representatives are due in Brussels for talks with the European Commission on April 13, as many complain the conflict risks plunging an already strained industry into a deeper crisis.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The conflict has sharply raised the price of oil, which augurs more price increases ahead.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Moreover, Hamilton’s complaint—that he could hardly be expected to remember everything he had said over “the course of a fifteen year competition”—inadvertently opened up a whole new and much larger field of conflict.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis