quarrel
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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 â Sep. 5, 2026
I had no quarrel with Cole recounting that lamentable story alongside mine, but we did have one occasional difference of emphasis.
From Slate â Aug. 3, 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 â 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 â Mar. 20, 2026
They had turned to quarrel with each other.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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 â Jun. 25, 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 â May 21, 2026
We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.
From BBC â Sep. 28, 2024
A revised order was issued and the list of countries affected kept changing; there were intergovernmental quarrels along with protests from U.S. allies in the Muslim world.
From Salon â Jul. 21, 2024
Falconer's horse stood alongside the road a dozen yards off, grazing blithely, with no interest in his master's quarrels.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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Even after the 2024 pact, Overdeck and Siegel quarreled over whether either of them breached their contracts or fiduciary duties, a fight that went into arbitration last year.
From The Wall Street Journal â Apr. 1, 2026
Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.
From Los Angeles Times â Mar. 10, 2026
Japanese media have described Aoba as being thought of as a troublemaker who repeatedly changed contract jobs and apartments and quarreled with neighbors.
From Seattle Times â Jan. 24, 2024
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 â Oct. 12, 2023
Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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Gainsborough was a founder member but often quarrelled with the academy, particularly over the hanging of his pictures in the Annual Exhibition.
From BBC â Sep. 1, 2024
But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters â Sep. 14, 2022
In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.
From Slate â Jun. 8, 2021
Even in late middle age, the sisters quarrelled over what kind of hospital care their mother should receive.
From The Guardian â Jul. 26, 2020
He took it as a personal affront and quarrelled with everyone in the line of hotel command from the bellhop to the manager.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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 â May 28, 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 â 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 â Sep. 12, 2023
Regardless, it still boils down to two rich guys quarreling and profiting off the public's interest in it a year after the incident that incited it.
From Salon â Mar. 7, 2023
He went alone, then, and he had no mind to see either of his two quarreling daughters-in-law, nor even his grandchildren, in whom was his frequent delight.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's â May 16, 2026
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 â Oct. 13, 2023
"He wanted to vent. We learned from his mother that on the day of the incident he was quarrelling with his wife," local police chief Chakkraphat Wichitvaidya told Reuters.
From Reuters â Oct. 7, 2022
"A blue tit is a dominant species - it tends to win in interactions and fighting for food or quarrelling for nest sites," explains Dr Lees.
From BBC â Aug. 27, 2021
“I heard him say that,” I said, alluding to statements my father had often made when quarrelling with my mother.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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