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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

There was a time when the public picked a team in the Murdoch family’s squabble.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

And like in any squabble, there will be a winner and a loser.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026

A squabble would ensue until they all became aware of the watchful eye of Cluny.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Drake turns the frigid, isolated mansion rap that’s become his trademark toward relitigating the last half-decade of petty squabbles and minor slights.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

The answer, he says, is to find what he calls the “Goldilocks zone” of healthy conflict, where people inside the business feel comfortable raising problems without triggering squabbles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

“Couples can get stuck in these squabbles that are not grounded to the goal of getting something done.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

Though it’s been ages since I’ve written to you about the squabbles, there’s still no change.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Her in-laws and her own father squabbled over who bore the financial burden of supporting her and her daughters, for Handsome Charlie had left his household in debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

And as Leclerc then squabbled with the recovering Sainz, and the Ferraris then ran into tyre trouble before Mercedes and Verstappen, Russell stretched out his lead to take control of the race.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024

She and Future have squabbled in court about their son and, in July, Future appeared to call out Wilson on the track “Turn Yo Clic Up,” further adding fuel to the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

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

She hands out camping chairs, decides when it is safe to use the escalator, and de-escalates spats between people squabbling over a patch of floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

At times, the supreme leader has presented himself as almost above politics - looking down on the squabbling between Iran's reformists and conservatives.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

When the next streetcar rolls in, the upper deck fills with a gaggle of schoolgirls, squabbling over who gets the window seat closest to the sea breeze.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The roommates kept a stewpot simmering perpetually on the stove, tossing in a scrounged vegetable when they had it or a scrap of meat when flush, and squabbling over spare potatoes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik