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At variance
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Adjective
- 1 not in accord wordnet
Prep_phrase
- 1 Not in accord; in a state of disagreement. idiomatic
"Bill Clinton was elected on an untenable premise: that it is the job of the President to manage the economy. Yes, that is what we have come to expect of Presidents; but this expectation, the author argues, is punishingly at variance with anything any President can credibly deliver[.]"
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