at odds
idiom
: not agreeing with each other : in a state of disagreement
The parents and teachers are still at odds (about/over what to teach the students).
—often + withThe two groups have long been at odds with each other.
He was completely at oddswith the way the problem was being handled.
The results of the study are at odds with our previous findings.
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Those protesting the immigration actions have found themselves at odds with federal agents, at times in confrontations that have resulted in gunfire and serious injury.
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Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Last year’s relentlessly twisty The Girlfriend, on Prime Video, cast Olivia Cooke as a slightly unhinged working-class striver at odds with her upper-crust boyfriend’s even more deranged mother (Wright).
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
That puts her at odds with Ray, whose investment in her son hinges on a brusque, performative disregard for Colin’s happiness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
But those songs increasingly feel at odds with the music more responsible for the cultural penetration of the term, and that music's efforts to become completely absorbed into the English-speaking pop paradigm.
—Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 29 Jan. 2026
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Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Last year’s relentlessly twisty The Girlfriend, on Prime Video, cast Olivia Cooke as a slightly unhinged working-class striver at odds with her upper-crust boyfriend’s even more deranged mother (Wright).
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
That puts her at odds with Ray, whose investment in her son hinges on a brusque, performative disregard for Colin’s happiness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
But those songs increasingly feel at odds with the music more responsible for the cultural penetration of the term, and that music's efforts to become completely absorbed into the English-speaking pop paradigm.
—Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 29 Jan. 2026
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“At odds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20odds. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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