quarrel
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As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate β Jun. 26, 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 β Mar. 20, 2026
She is also in a quarrel with Erika Kirk over unsubstantiated claims of a conspiracy involving the US and Israeli governments in the killing of her husband.
From Barron's β Dec. 20, 2025
The Colombian leader’s quarrel isn’t with Americans, Petro said on X on Sunday, drawing a line between Americans and their leader.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 21, 2025
Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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 β 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 β May 21, 2026
Mr. Zipperstein suggests that the real drama was not in the bedroom but at the writing desk, where Roth’s quarrels with himself became art.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 30, 2025
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 β Jul. 21, 2024
Even quarrels, except for the one between Grand-grand Aunt and Grand-grand Uncle.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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 β Apr. 1, 2026
He and journalist Joy Reid publicly quarreled following her exit last year from MSNBC.
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 9, 2026
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 β Oct. 12, 2023
Given the circumstances, ZTF and Trice could have bickered and quarreled and broken apart.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 30, 2023
She heard a cheer when one fell, and then the raised voices as they quarreled over whose throw had brought the fruit down.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
During a two-day sentencing hearing lawyers quarrelled over aggravating factors.
From BBC β May 13, 2025
But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters β Sep. 14, 2022
In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.
From Slate β Jun. 8, 2021
Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.
From Nature β Oct. 1, 2019
Tycho also quarrelled with some of his tenants on the mainland and got into trouble with the ruling Council for neglecting the maintenance of a chapel that formed part of his estates.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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 β 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 β Jul. 25, 2025
The quarreling threatens to undermine conservation goals because all decisions must be unanimous.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 13, 2023
The quarreling neighbors haven’t met in a test series in 16 years and one-day international and Twenty20 series in 10 years.
From Washington Times β Oct. 13, 2023
They sound so childish and innocent, and I think that I will even miss their quarreling.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β May 16, 2026
If a siinqee stick is placed on the ground by a married woman between two quarrelling parties, it means the conflict must stop immediately out of respect.
From BBC β Mar. 11, 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 β 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 β Oct. 7, 2022
This door was open; a light shone out of the room within: I heard thence a snarling, snatching sound, almost like a dog quarrelling.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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