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“We sat on the opposite side of the table with lawsuits with each other,” Gelsinger said, referencing the companies’ various legal spats, including a patent lawsuit that they eventually settled in 2011.

From Fortune

Those spats seem to be heating up as publisher pursuit of revenue during the coronavirus-induced recession becomes increasingly fraught.

From Digiday

The famous director was late, and the small talk stuttered and spat like an old truck on a bumpy road.

From Fortune

Every so often, the spat between the two digital operations reemerges.

From Digiday

We see a couple shouting or arguing or something, we don’t know is this really an emergency, or is this just two people having a spat.

Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.

Earlier in the year, TMZ alleged, citing a police report, that a hotel room spat between the two left Nicki with a busted lip.

They kicked and fought and spat and succeeded in repeatedly filling their opponents with fear.

He licked them up with a slick bronzy tongue and spat a thick wad of honey-brown juice into the empty teacup.

Meathead spat another long stream of dip juice into the wedding china.

Long before we got there the deep-throated thunder was growling over us, and the clouds spat occasional flurries of rain.

Coming to the map of Europe, he smothered Russia with kisses and spat on all the rest of the world.

Then he spat upon the ground, and with an exaggerated shrug of his shoulders re-entered the house.

Big Sid turned around, spat out his cigaret, heeled it into the concrete.

The sputum, spat out or coughed out, is a means whereby the disease is spread.

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spat, such as: altercation, bickering, brouhaha, difference of opinion, disagreement, and discord.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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