tension
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There’s little tension or drive, just shaggy scenes about paranoia, trust and hope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The film’s own logline gets at the tension: four tenacious girls navigate an $800 million business “in which innocence and ambition collide.”
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Buybacks create an additional tension because of how Warsh approaches his job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Discussions also addressed "efforts aimed at bringing closer the viewpoints between Turkey and Israel and ensuring the current tension between the two countries are not reflected on Syria territory", the report added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
“That’s mean,” Hazel chided, but she felt like something was untangling inside her—a knot of tension she’d been carrying for weeks.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Zambian opposition leader Brian Mundubile has been charged with treason, his lawyer has said amid heightened political tensions in the country.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
More recently, inflation has warmed up again, amid Middle East tensions and higher oil and gas prices.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
California’s struggling wine industry says it expects to take another hit as trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada flare up again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Notably, the measures announced stopped short of directly penalizing China, the main buyer of Iranian oil, a move that would have risked stoking tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
She may have respected Woodhull, but she also realized that tensions were rising and the debate was dividing the women’s movement and weakening the National Woman Suffrage Association.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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