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The phrase "a clash of methods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where different approaches or techniques are in conflict or competition with each other.
Example: "The project faced significant challenges due to a clash of methods between the engineering and design teams."
Alternatives: "a conflict of approaches" or "a confrontation of techniques".
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But they also exposed, as the Times put it, a "clash of methods," and what the late historian Frank Freidel, in his 1973 book "Franklin D. Roosevelt: Launching the New Deal," described as "one of the strangest struggles in the history of the presidency" — an apt characterization even now, when the history of that office seems to take ever stranger turns.
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Either way, it is already a genuinely fascinating final, not so much a clash of styles as a meeting of methods, and a moment of coronation for at least one of modern football's great golden crops.
It's a clash of civilizations!
"It is a clash of misunderstandings".
Is there a clash of cultures?
It's a clash of religions.
We have a clash of lifestyles here".
A clash of Titans?
"Or a clash of civilizations.
Or a clash of calendars?
Steven Lubet of Northwestern University said he saw "a clash of values".
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