spat

Japanese stocks swung between mild gains and losses as investors digested the U.S.-Canada trade spat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Sheinbaum later said at her daily press conference that the former official at the center of the spat, ex-prime minister Betssy Chavez, was being flown on Friday aboard a Mexican military plane to Mexico.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Fred spat out the last bit of pea leaf and crawled into the wagon for a wild ride down the hill.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

In a reminder of the delicate nature of their ties, diplomats between the two countries last week spatted over a South Korean lawmaker’s visit to disputed islets located in the waters between the two countries.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again Publisher Bonfils refused to answer, clapped his derby upon his greying head, walked out on spatted feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients of Scott and Fowles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their rope-soled shoes tapped and spatted on the pavement.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some subsection of the dinosaur community where people are spatting over science or fighting about feathers and scales.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

If an argument were a tennis match, many of us would tear right through the net during a frenzy of back-and-forth spatting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Nelson, a Flower Mound Republican, said Monday of her House counterparts, “We’re not spatting with them.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015

Thanks to the magic of Twitter, we can now experience all of the spinning, spatting, and snarking from both sides of the aisle in real time.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014

It is still maintained by some, however, that there has been a succession of bad spatting years, and that the supply may yet reach to something of its old proportions.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett