quarrel
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Rao has dealt with a series of stress tests this year, chief among them the company’s quarrel with the Defense Department.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 8, 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’s not in the center of a quarrel.
From Salon β Feb. 18, 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
Eventually, all three students would quarrel fiercely, unleashing a cycle of envy and destructiveness that would blaze through the discipline of genetics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.
From Salon β 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 β 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 β May 21, 2026
We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2024
At home they wanted me to enjoy life, which was fine, but here they shouldn’t have encouraged me to agree with them and only shown me “their” side of all the quarrels and gossip.
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 β Aug. 21, 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
Neighbors said he often quarreled with other residents in various apartment buildings he lived in near Tokyo.
From Washington Times β Sep. 5, 2023
After the aunties and Granddad quarreled, I was crying.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters β Sep. 14, 2022
On Wednesday, day seven of the trial, lead prosecutor Thomas Binger and Judge Bruce Schroeder loudly quarrelled in court.
From BBC β Nov. 10, 2021
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
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 β 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 β Jan. 25, 2024
Meanwhile, quarreling among supervisors was getting worse, and Feinstein told a colleague she was sick of it.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 29, 2023
The group kept quarreling until Loudwing let out a tremendous honk.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β 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 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
"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 β Aug. 27, 2021
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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