contretemps

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The “60 Minutes” contretemps lands as his father, Larry, has agreed personally to backstop $40 billion of Paramount’s $108 billion offer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Aston Villa team-mates Anwar El Ghazi and Tyrone Mings' contretemps came in a goalless draw with West Ham.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

Innocently hang a flag the wrong way — or hang the wrong flag — and what was supposed to be a celebration can become a diplomatic contretemps.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

Aside from one episode in which he threw a rubber chicken at a persistent questioner, he coolly conveyed at press briefings the sensitivity of the diplomatic contretemps.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

His specific reference was to a contretemps in August 1943 over Rossi Lomanitz, a twenty-one-year-old Rad Lab physicist who was valued as a protege by both Lawrence and Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik