Example Sentences

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Awards shows have conflicted agendas and contradictory incentives.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023

The U.S., he said, failed to understand that tribal ties might cause the Afghan soldiers to provide false intelligence or have conflicted allegiances.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

Technically, you agreed to this contract, even though it may have conflicted with some state laws.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Rescheduling the festival would have conflicted with other community events and competed with other festivals in the area.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2020

No doubt he has incidentally accomplished, in the pursuit of his own aggrandizement, certain manifest public benefits; but wherever public and private advantages have conflicted, he has naturally preferred the latter.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David