quarrel
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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 β 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 β Aug. 3, 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
He began again, in his disturbingly fluid fashion, to quarrel about the brooch.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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
But at this moment the general despair broke down into a multitude of individual quarrels.
From "1984" by George Orwell
“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 10, 2026
Japanese media have described Aoba as being thought of as a troublemaker who repeatedly changed contract jobs and apartments and quarreled with neighbors.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 24, 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 β Oct. 12, 2023
Bobby quarreled not only with Sofia but with the entire Polgar family about the exhibition.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
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 β Jul. 28, 2019
At a dance held on 10 December, Tycho quarrelled with another Danish aristocrat, Manderup Parsbjerg.
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
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
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
Ida's story sounded so true that, for a moment, Hornet herself almost believed in these quarreling parents.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β 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 β 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 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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