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at variance with

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at variance with someone/something
different from or not agreeing with someone or something. What she told the police was totally at variance with the truth. My opinions seem to be completely at variance with my friends' opinions.

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Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.
Yet is not the power which injustice exercises of such a nature that wherever she takes up her abode, whether in a city, in an army, in a family, or in any other body, that body is, to begin with, rendered incapable of united action by reason of sedition and distraction; and does it not become its own enemy and at variance with all that opposes it, and with the just?
The ideas of humor among the green men of Mars are widely at variance with our conceptions of incitants to merriment.
 
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