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squabble

[skwob-uhl] / ˈskwɒb əl /




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But this squabble between Goliaths undersells that ordinary online business and regular customers are going to find themselves at odds with each other plenty as more people start deploying these little robot gophers.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Whether you’re a young politician looking to avoid alienating your peers, or a senior representative not looking to upset the apple cart, there’s little incentive to squabble over the way things have always been done.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The couple’s legal squabble over the lamp and a collection of souvenir refrigerator magnets from traveling with their children cost them about $10,000 in attorneys’ time, Costas estimated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

When labor-management disputes interrupt baseball, many fans undoubtedly feel like they are victims of a squabble between “millionaires and billionaires.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

He and Hermione had finally forgotten their squabble about Crookshanks in the face of Harry’s difficulties.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Rather than hearting nearly every mom group chat message, from dramatic notes about soccer games to missives on playground squabbles, I’m just going to do…nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The voices of the characters come through as though we’re eavesdropping from a discreet distance on their banter and squabbles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But talks were slowed down due to disagreement over the price, as well as squabbles within the government over how big the stake should be.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Pondering the loss of a spouse tends to put money squabbles in perspective.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The two sides had squabbled over how Chey’s fortune should be split with Roh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The boxers squabbled like petulant schoolchildren at a news conference in February, with Eubank holding court, taking aim at everyone in his eyeline, including Benn and Hearn.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

The city and team have squabbled over access to the stadium for a property assessment authorized in 2023 that has still not been completed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

O'Donnell and Trump have squabbled publicly and repeatedly since her first stint as a co-host on ABC's "The View."

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

In a normal world, once we got home, I would be texting Madi and Skye while my siblings squabbled over who got Dad’s pickle.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

After a decade of stalled negotiations, public squabbling and false starts, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will finally meet in the ring on 11 December at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

An issue like that can intensify the squabbling when a death occurs in the family.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Up to this point he had formed an uneasy relationship with the Masters, regularly squabbling with the unrelenting undulations of the famed course.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

As they flew away from Brussels over the weekend, the pair left behind a just-defused crisis in transatlantic relations and internal squabbling over another trade deal with South American nations.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The big civil rights oiganizations right at this time had been publicly squabbling about donations.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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