bicker
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Ortiz continued to bicker with Dillman later in the day when he tried to schedule a future hearing in the case for July, demanding he “do it sooner.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
Sheed stopped at the statue base and watched the sisters bicker as usual.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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A couple forms, bickers, ends — and may or may not be reborn on different terms.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
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
Hence his decision to insinuate himself into “Riccardino” as “Author,” who periodically bickers with his own creation, Montalbano, about where the story is going and how the case should be solved.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
Grass cools the earth, but it also bickers with me over water.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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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
My grandmother and her sister bickered over everything their whole lives, so I think their mother knew better than to leave it to them to decide things.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025
They raised their kids in the Bowl and sometimes bickered over politics and annoyances, as any proper family does.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
George's lawyers bickered with one another, presented no defense, and called no witnesses.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
So it becomes one more point of 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
Harry said loudly, and Ron and Hermione stopped bickering to listen.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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