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Fuel-price inflation held steady last month, but the renewed elevated energy prices due to the Middle East conflict leaves open the prospect of further pump price hikes, Shah adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The central bank enters the meeting with inflation still above its 2% objective, a resilient labor market and energy prices that have been pushed higher by the prolonged Middle East conflict.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Senior military leaders have previously said they planned to boost military capabilities in space, citing Russian and Chinese programmes developing ways to attack and disrupt US satellites in a future conflict.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

That arrangement was initially understood by most people involved, including the British government, as a temporary expedient to avoid ethnic and religious conflict.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Hume, in distinguishing relations of ideas from matters of fact, is recapitulating the fundamental intellectual conflict which gave rise to the Scientific Revolution.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That foresees a world of disrupted trade through tariffs and conflicts over chokepoints, more costly onshoring and less immigration, while political systems test the limits of spending to fund their militaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

"The world changed that day. Life changed for so many of us. Even the conflicts that we see today, a lot of them have roots in what happened back on September 11th."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The group Human Rights Watch called on German leaders during the visit to "publicly call out the United Arab Emirates' human rights record and its role in regional conflicts".

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

A group of the 18 biggest shipping countries warned Tuesday that global conflicts, trade restrictions and chokepoints were raising costs and spreading uncertainty across global supply chains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Self-conscious writers are also apt to whinge about how what they’re about to do is so terribly difficult and complicated and controversial: What are intractable conflicts?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Photo make-believe: I’m conflicted about the new suite of Apple Intelligence photo-editing tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The two bills originally conflicted with one another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Is the brokerage adviser conflicted and are they just going to try to promote their own products?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

"I am deeply conflicted, truly torn. I am free, yet in reality, I am not," the pastor told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Her words did not sink in, for they conflicted with the code of the streets.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

“Americans are hearing conflicting messages about vaccines right now, and it’s understandable that people are asking whom they should trust,” Dr. Bruce Gellin of the Vaccine Integrity Project told NPR.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

A payable-on-death or beneficiary designation trumps a conflicting provision in the will.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

He said Stacy was dealing with complex and conflicting circumstances - the fear that someone who "should" have been protecting her was dangerous, as well as "fear from outsiders looking in".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Amid conflicting signals on inflation, economic growth and employment, there’s a case either way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

My thoughts and feelings were a wild, conflicting jumble.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli