quarrel
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The island quarrel is the latest sign of strained relations between Japan on one side and China, Russia and North Korea on the other.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 13, 2026
As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate â Jun. 26, 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
And Sir Hugh Fitzhugh, to the north yonder, who is cousin to Sir Peter, hath a quarrel with him.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.
From Salon â Jul. 5, 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
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 â Oct. 30, 2025
We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.
From BBC â Sep. 28, 2024
She quarrels, curses, cries, feels sorry for herself, laughs and starts all over again.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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
Given the circumstances, ZTF and Trice could have bickered and quarreled and broken apart.
From Seattle Times â 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
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
Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.
From Nature â 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 â Jul. 28, 2019
They had quarrelled as soon as Lamorak was dead, or rather, as soon as they had found time to realize what had happened.
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 â May 28, 2026
The quarreling threatens to undermine conservation goals because all decisions must be unanimous.
From Seattle Times â Oct. 13, 2023
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 â Sep. 12, 2023
Regardless, it still boils down to two rich guys quarreling and profiting off the public's interest in it a year after the incident that incited it.
From Salon â Mar. 7, 2023
In time he confidently expected all the trouble would smooth out by itself... if only the soldiers and the inhabitants did not get to quarreling.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's â 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 â 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 â Oct. 13, 2023
The quarrelling made military cooperation between them impossible, and eventually provoked the collapse of the wider Condor network, putting paid to the campaign in Europe.
From The Guardian â Sep. 3, 2020
He protested: “Ah, Mordred, cornel Nay, we are not quarrelling with our King. There is no thought of that about it.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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