bicker

As they bicker and jab, their quiet dissatisfaction with their lives stops being so quiet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

These days, pastel and fluorescent birds groom, preen and bicker in enclosures behind the home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

But they can still take steps to reduce tension when older couples bicker about money.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

"While Americans bicker, our rivals are studying David's every move," billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff chimed in.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

To raise voices and bicker would be an insult to Hāloa, our older relative.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The Palace of Westminster sits in a state of dangerous decay, with chunks of masonry tumbling off its walls, as Parliament bickers over a renovation that could take decades and cost more than $20 billion.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

Other leagues compromise, grow and prosper while baseball bickers and battles and points its fingers at each other on a path toward national irrelevancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

Then there are the never-ending bar bickers over who was better — say, the late Henry Aaron or Willie Mays?

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2021

Whatever irritations they have — like a long-married couple that bickers — they should work out.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2020

Grass cools the earth, but it also bickers with me over water.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

As her male opponents bickered back and forth, taking swipes at each other, Porter said that given all the “shouting” and “disrespect” onstage, she was shocked that “anyone wants to talk about my temperament.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

When his daughters bickered in the past, he’d want to “give them advice or de-escalate their conflict.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

That same month, Trump made an unusual visit to the construction site during which the two men, clad in hard hats, bickered over the price tag for the makeover.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Heavyweight Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva said Frazer Clarke is "fighting for his career", while Clarke questioned TKV's previous injury as they bickered at a tense news conference.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

By noon, I had worked myself into such a grim mood that I snapped at Sim during lunch and we bickered like an old married couple.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Her popular podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me is full of gossip, oversharing and comic bickering - music to the ears of the Traitors producers, no doubt.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

This, friends, is exactly what the speech was meant to accomplish — myopic bickering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

One way a court can handle rumors of interpersonal bickering is to stop behaving badly in public sessions.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

But when she closed her eyes, she could hear their happy, bickering voices.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis