How to Use at loggerheads in a Sentence
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However, some of the powers at loggerheads over the region were always going to see this year’s summit as a showdown.
—ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
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As America steams headlong into November, working-class folks are still at loggerheads with its political class.
—Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
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Hamas and Israel are still at loggerheads about the sequencing of the group’s disarmament in relation to an Israeli withdrawal.
—Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
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The two countries have been mired in deadlocked trade negotiations, have sparred over the US threatening sanctions over India’s purchase of oil from Russia, and are now at loggerheads over immigration.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
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Outside, twins Siobhan and Niamh are still at loggerheads, which leads Ted, via one of his classic a long winded description of a Hank and Howie Rasmussen, to conclude Siobhan is older.
—Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
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Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were already at loggerheads over Syria, with Saudi Arabia backing the post-Assad regime and the UAE sharing Israel’s hostility to it, and Yemen, where Saudi Arabia had just driven out Emirati proxies.
—Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
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