All 5 Uses
strife
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Hillbilly Elegy
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- He had no problem with Armco, but he and everyone like him hated the coal companies in Kentucky thanks to a long history of labor strife.†
p. 35.8 *strife = violent conflict or angry disagreement
- No outsiders could know about the familial strife—with outsiders defined very broadly.†
p. 44.2
- My closest friends had all seen some kind of domestic strife in their life—divorces, remarriages, legal separations, or fathers who spent some time in jail.†
p. 203.7
- Why is domestic strife so common in families like mine?†
p. 207.9
- The statistics are stacked high against them, and many succumb: to crime or an early death at worst, domestic strife and welfare dependency at best.†
p. 241.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)