strifes

plural of strife
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Noun
  • Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.
    April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Unexpected Christmas the film revolves around the romantic entanglements, family secrets, old rivalries — and love — that ensue when the Scott family comes together for a holiday reunion.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • According to a report from Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the creative direction for the San Diego show will feature the continuation of several major rivalries inside the two-ring steel cage.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some Virginia elections have turned into battles over which candidate will be toughest on data centers; others elections have already been lost over them.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • As things get predictably dark for the struggling couple – and for some unlucky flies that get to experience her rage first-hand – their battles are frequently hilarious.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Indexing or eliminating caps would shift the burden from those least able to pay and smooth market frictions hurting families of all ages.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Because of these frictions, more and more types of companies that function across borders are looking to stablecoins as practical tools.
    Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The offensive line, which was also subject to heavy criticism after the loss to the Gators, didn’t panic after the early struggles.
    Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Despite his offensive line’s struggles, Daniels had a half to remember.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even among those with magical abilities, familiar emotions and conflicts tend to surface.
    Karen Ostergren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, viewing her objectively is impossible, according to Federico Navarrete, historian at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, because the race and class conflicts left by the conquest persist.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, the reality is that peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US and Europe are clearly stalled, if at worse dead with many contentions from both sides surrounding security concerns and, importantly, trade sanctions.
    Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But aggregate consumer spending masks schisms below the surface.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This brings us to the differences between the characters, which point to pivotal schisms between Anderson and Pynchon as storytellers.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Strifes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strifes. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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