One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools [ …] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
[T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
The previous study used a simple, repetitive visuomotor task that employed a visuotactile conflict task with no movement.
He was unquestionably kind, but it was a sort of lazy kindness, owing not so much to gentleheartedness as to a desire to avoid conflict at all cost.
The judge recused herself from that case, citing a possible conflict of interest.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
Conflicting data has shown antitumorigenic or protumorigenic functions on macrophages in particular, however our data indicates macrophages play a protumorigenic role in GC patients.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
So [ … ] the macabre episode of the two Americans axe-murdered [ … ] became another chapter in the bloody annals of the Korean conflict.
"Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.
Reeanactors called this "galvanizing," the Civil War term for soldiers who switched sides during the conflict.
Meaning of conflict for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "conflict" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.