quarrel
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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
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 â May 8, 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
“I cant quarrel with her,” I says, “because I haven’t seen her since this morning. What does she say I’ve done now? made her go to school? That’s pretty bad,” I says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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
He remained aloof, however, never participating in the quarrels between the pro-Zionist and anti-Zionist groups.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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
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 â Apr. 23, 2025
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
Neighbors said he often quarreled with other residents in various apartment buildings he lived in near Tokyo.
From Washington Times â Sep. 5, 2023
They quarreled to the point of rage over whether Juarez was in Old Mexico or New Mexico.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
During a two-day sentencing hearing lawyers quarrelled over aggravating factors.
From BBC â May 13, 2025
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
I had come down because I did not want people at the ball to think I had quarrelled with Maxim.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
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 â Feb. 19, 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 â 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 â Jan. 25, 2024
Here on Maxwell Street, weeping was as common as bawling babies, quarreling, and laughter.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's â 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 â 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 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
As usual they were quarrelling, and being of different breeds they used the Common Speech after their fashion.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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