quarrel
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As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate β Jun. 26, 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
The quarrel here isn’t over the terms of an energy contract or the routing of a pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 11, 2026
I saw Charles return for him, despite their quarrel; saw him lift the old man upon his back and charge with him into the foam.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
Although they never permitted matters to come to bloodshed, they still fostered these quarrels between them so that those citizens would not unite against them, being busy with their own disputes.
From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
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 β 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 β Apr. 23, 2025
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
The animals began to quietly assemble as the cloaked fox and hazy badger quarreled.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
During a two-day sentencing hearing lawyers quarrelled over aggravating factors.
From BBC β May 13, 2025
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
Even in late middle age, the sisters quarrelled over what kind of hospital care their mother should receive.
From The Guardian β Jul. 26, 2020
"Aye. A man named Falconer. The man you quarrelled wi' outside the Globe that day."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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
The quarreling threatens to undermine conservation goals because all decisions must be unanimous.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 13, 2023
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
Baby Kochamma resented Ammu, because she saw her quarreling with a fate that she, Baby Kochamma herself, felt she had graciously accepted.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β 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 β 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 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
Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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