Affair
Conflict
Conflict noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.
Affair and conflict are semantically related in incident topic. Sometimes you can use "Affair" instead a noun "Conflict", if it concerns topics such as combat.
Nearby Words: conflicting, conflicted
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Noodle Incident: The Ascendants conflict, Raiq's HeelFace Turn, Taran'atar's ultimate fate and the rest of that whole affair remain this...although we're slowly getting more of a sense of how it went down. Slowly.
Source: Literature / Star Trek: The Fall - When a work is simply about desire for, say, a Protestant minister, the conflict around this trope tends to be lessened, though there's still plenty of dramatic potential if either or both parties are tempted to carry on a premarital or extramarital affair.
Source: Hot for Preacher -
It was by and far not an American affair, and as the war worsened and became a truly global conflict stretching from the fields of France and Flanders in the West all the way to German colonies in the Pacific, American opposition to entering the war only increased.
Source: Useful Notes / Woodrow Wilson
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