dustup
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Controversy seems to follow him, as we saw in his most recent dustup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
There was a dustup with 10 seconds left when UCLA’s Eric Dailey Jr. pushed Wisconsin’s Nolan Winter after absorbing a hard foul, forcing a scrum of players to congregate along the baseline.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
Fosado told the Journal Sentinel that the dustup didn’t alter his opinion of Brewers fans.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025
What better legacy of our first dustup with Saddam Hussein, our first President Bush, than this hulking machine.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
Lawrence arrived in Belgium only a few weeks after he engaged in a minor dustup with Rutherford, at long range, over the prospects for useful energy from the atomic nucleus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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