- a variation of personality conflict.
personality clash
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To call the quasi-merger a personality clash is an understatement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
He said the disagreement about whether to allow the pursuit was not the result of a personality clash but was an “abuse of power.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
Jeff Guzzetti, a former N.T.S.B. and F.A.A. accident investigator, said that “a personality clash between an operator and an inspector” is not uncommon.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
The personality clash between the two may have as much to do with their respective career trajectories and standings within the party as issues to do with gender politics or ideology.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2012
For some obscure reason there was a "personality clash," the intelligence officer's term, between the pilot and the squadron commander.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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