at odds

phrase

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Recent Examples of at odds But there were no major announcements with the countries still at odds on most fronts, including its growing nuclear arsenal. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The figures published by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI — an autonomous government agency that has at times been at odds with Mexico’s ruling party — offer the first wider snapshot of the crisis. — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Despite rumors swirling for months that Presley’s mother and daughter were at odds with one another over the dispute, Riley echoed her grandmother’s sentiments about the settlement in an interview with Vanity Fair. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2026 For instance, Jupiter in Leo will challenge Neptune retrograde in Aries today, making our expectations at odds with our current reality. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for at odds
Recent Examples of Synonyms for at odds
at loggerheads
Phrase
  • However, some of the powers at loggerheads over the region were always going to see this year’s summit as a showdown.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • 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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“At odds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/at%20odds. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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