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quarrel

[kwawr-uhl, kwor-] / ˈkwɔr əl, ˈkwɒr- /




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There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

My quarrel with DEI has never been that it takes chances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

"Cuba has no quarrel with the United States. We do have the need and the right to protect ourself. But we are willing to sit down," Fernandez de Cossio said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

Maksim, eight, lists everything he has learnt in his patriotic education lessons: about great Russian poets and painters, about friendship and how not to quarrel.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

“Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Ms. Wilde and Mr. Rogen’s fast-paced, zig-zagging, slightly crazy quarrels create the sense that these two people have known each other for a very long time and have a special talent for mutual aggravation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The two preachers have previously been detained by authorities, the most recent being in January, when they were summoned by police for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

To avoid any quarrels, I suggest timing any stock sale, with the beneficiaries’ cooperation, so that no one inadvertently misses out on a dividend payment.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

No quarrels or differences of opinion—but hardly an ideal marriage.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The Po, too, was not immune to war, especially in the 16th century, when neighboring France, Switzerland and the Vatican quarreled over ownership of crucial crossroads to Milan and other parts of Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

He and journalist Joy Reid publicly quarreled following her exit last year from MSNBC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

“We’ve fought and quarreled for years but we’re great friends,” Hayes told the Ohio State student paper in 1986.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Some San Cristóbal residents have even quarreled with Spanish-language professors and authorities at the Canarian Language Academy who contend that this way of speaking equates to nothing more than a linguistic game.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

I had a turn with the shark, but when everyone quarreled over who was next, Mrs. Moss stowed it away.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

He and the singer quarrelled over the album's track listing and Johnson and the band parted.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022

But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2022

In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2021

Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.

From Nature ● Oct. 1, 2019

They had quarrelled as soon as Lamorak was dead, or rather, as soon as they had found time to realize what had happened.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Written by Mr. Carney and Peter McDonald, who also contributes a funny supporting turn as one of Rick’s band mates, it stumbles into a bog of bitterness, quarreling and unseemly behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

In 1994, Tori Amos’ U.S. video for her piano anthem “Cornflake Girl” presents a coven of quarreling young women driven through the desert in the back of a pickup truck.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

They checked in on each other when they were sick, met each other’s families and spent long hours debating, quarreling and compromising in the fight against global warming.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Police said they didn’t know if the girl, who was a DuVal student, was involved with either of the quarreling groups.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Here on Maxwell Street, weeping was as common as bawling babies, quarreling, and laughter.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

"It's not too late to repair. Stop quarrelling - now."

From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023

The quarrelling neighbors haven’t met in a test series in 16 years and one-day international and Twenty20 series in 10 years.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

"We are told that the couple had issues and were quarrelling before," police chief Francis Wahome told AFP.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2021

‘We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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