quarrel

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

The island quarrel is the latest sign of strained relations between Japan on one side and China, Russia and North Korea on the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 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

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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 ● Jul. 21, 2024

But I know, too, of the basic comfort in this familial precision, where the relation abides no argument, no questions or quarrels.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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 ● Apr. 1, 2026

She added: “I knew he was unhappy at home. I wasn’t the little sweet coffee-tea-or-me wife. We quarreled a lot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

Whereas Jagger and Richards were the more outspoken members and principal songwriters who famously quarreled in their heyday, the more even-keeled Watts could rock a stadium, seemingly without breaking a sweat.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 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 ● Oct. 12, 2023

He had not been home for two days and three nights, and when he did return they quarreled with more than their usual bitterness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

When the two men quarrelled at a dinner in Manchester Square in London, Phillips witnessed Beckett’s artistic intransigence at first hand.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019

The next day he wondered whether, perhaps, they had quarrelled.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

A decade later, Demme would suffer similar strife on the set of “Beloved,” quarreling with Oprah Winfrey over aspects of characterization in the supernatural slavery epic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

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

They were quarreling passionately, but in subdued voices, because of the quiet in the square and the people who were wandering past nearby.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

Michelle Pfeiffer is the matriarch of a quarrelling American family who come back together for the holidays - including fellow Oscar nominee Felicity Jones, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and dad Denis Leary.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

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

"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 ● Oct. 7, 2022

They were all hatching, all quarrelling, all friendly nevertheless.

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