spats

Example Sentences

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BP has previous experience when it comes to spats with its top brass.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

While spats have flared up between the two countries in recent decades, fueled by historical animosity, this time it feels different, say analysts.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, whose country has had long-running trade spats with Trump, will also address the WEF.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine