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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

I had no quarrel with Cole recounting that lamentable story alongside mine, but we did have one occasional difference of emphasis.

From Slate ● 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 ● 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

Violet and I walk out, leaving my parents to their quarrel.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

At the moment, the tempestuous quarrels have subsided; only Dussel and the van Daans are still at loggerheads.

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

Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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 ● Oct. 12, 2023

Given the circumstances, ZTF and Trice could have bickered and quarreled and broken apart.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

“But what did they say, Ancient? What was it they quarreled about?”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Then there were different times when they quarrelled about nothing—but even the quarrels were those of lovers, which seemed sweet when they remembered them afterwards.

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

For much of the production, directed by George C. Wolfe, I was quibbling and quarreling with the reigning queen of Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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

Any domestic quarreling, any discourtesy, especially to women, was not allowed.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

From Barron's ● 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 ● 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

"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 ● Aug. 27, 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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