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“If he is able to explain his plan to the U.S., and bridge the deep urban-rural divide that has long been Colombia’s biggest challenge, then it doesn’t have to be a conflictive relationship,” said Whitaker.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2022

And then I was just like, “OK, that’s a conflictive statement.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Work by a group of Democratic and Republican senators to hammer out the compromise went "beyond the headlines, beyond partisan sound bites, beyond the culture of instant outrage, disinformation and conflictive entertainment," he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2021

We started Vision Zero to reduce fatalities – so that will create a change in the urban environment – identifying conflictive roads, for instance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2015

This conflictive situation evolved presently industrial complications and disturbances of the gravest national importance.

From Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Grimké, Archibald Henry