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
  • This sense of competition has caused countless promotions to create timeless matches and rivalries that have stood the test of time, whether your looking at the Territories Era, the Monday Night Wars between WWE and WCW, or the rivalry between NJPW and AJPW in Japan.
    Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • What was one of the best rivalries in the 1980s and 90s has lost some of its luster more recently, with one or both of the programs being down for much of the last decade.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Where many of Krishna’s battles end in death for the aggressor, this story is remarkable for its mercy—Krishna spares Kaliya after the snake’s wives and children emerge from the pond to plead on his behalf.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Sheen described being at the center of seven family interventions, countless affairs, legal battles and messy divorces.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 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
  • Both teams are looking to rebound from early-season struggles.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The pandemic shined a relentless light on the deep struggles in the American education system.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For years, Netanyahu’s approach to warfare was characterized by brief and contained conflicts, especially in Gaza.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In 2020, during COVID-19 shutdowns, English didn’t have the schedule conflicts that once hindered him from starting his own coffee business.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 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 5 Oct. 2025.

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