kerfuffle
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The kerfuffle lingered in headlines on Wednesday as a news outlet released surveillance video from Art of Play purporting to show Clarkson's visit.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Is it a rift, kerfuffle, brawl or hairline fracture?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Carr said the review stemmed from a probe into whether the network’s diversity programs were discriminatory and that they had had nothing to do with the latest Kimmel kerfuffle.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
The government is describing the dispute as a contracting disagreement, a kerfuffle over terms and deliverables.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
He pauses, and there’s a kerfuffle in the darkness back there, and I wonder if he has some physical strategy for checking the fullness of his bladder.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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