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The Bank of Canada announces an interest-rate decision at 9:45 a.m., where its assessment of the U.S.-Canadian trade spat will be in focus.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

He is not alone in having then been chewed up and spat out at Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

She is also locked in a separate legal spat over Levon’s estate, where she has accused her stepmother, Sandra “Sandy” Helm, of misusing funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

One of the men, small and old, and yellow in the teeth and fingers with tobacco, spat into the water.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But later on the third night, Lady Beatty spatted with Frankie and drove off in a Huff.*

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

He also determined that the supportive spatting tape he had been wearing around his ankle no longer was doing much good, ditching the method after noticing it put extra pressure on the injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

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

Their little spatting was as nothing, they realized, to the mature and tragic bitterness that Charlie expressed.

From Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow