at odds
Example Sentences
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Paramount’s hostile takeover bypasses management entirely, appealing directly to investors and potentially putting shareholders’ preferences at odds with the board’s preferred transaction.
From MarketWatch
We have arrived at this very bleak view of relations between men and women, like we see the world differently, we’re just always at odds.
From Los Angeles Times
And while this image of a police chief is at odds with the much more varied and often insidious, violent truths of police work, Marge is a character torn right out of a Midwestern reality.
From Salon
The two were at odds over the press conferences that were held to update the public on the disaster and on efforts to reopen the burn area to traffic.
From Los Angeles Times
The talks had appeared to be in jeopardy, with the two countries at odds over the location and parameters.
From BBC
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