Example Sentences

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Merz's instincts, as a free-trade trans-Atlanticist, are clashing with current global realities.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

That proximity helps explain why federal agents are clashing more with locals here than anywhere else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

A year after the Eaton fire, survivors and the state’s electric utilities are clashing over whether state law should continue to protect the companies from the cost of disastrous wildfires they ignite.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

This led Montell to further investigate how cognitive biases, which are the errors in thinking that occur when people are processing information that affects decision-making, are clashing with the information age.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

Where they interfere, and are clashing with one another, the Gospel is set aside.

From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard