tiff
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Perhaps most amusing is Mr. Booker’s tiff with Conan O’Brien, who made a joke about the city of Newark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Time will tell if all this is just a tiff — or a trial separation.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
Murray told police he regarded the fight as a "tiff", the court was told.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
Back in 2019, Trump’s call caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Denmark, under whose sovereignty the vast island falls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
“I know, but I thought . . . Well, I was certain the tiff between you and Leo would blow over. You were happy before.”
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
She said this attitude can elevate minor tiffs on social media into real life fights on campus.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
The regular tiffs between Mr. Sunak’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, and European leaders like President Emmanuel Macron of France played better in England than they did in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
“I know he gets in tiffs with people or don’t like him from the other side. He’s just competing and he loves competing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
“Our team definitely had some tiffs, had to get at it with one another and beat each other up every single day,” attacker Maggie Steffens said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2021
But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
When the lovers tiffed, the corpses looked "woebegone and reproachful."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the two tiffed on the bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if he got tiffed he would refuse to do a thing.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill
We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
"Clint likes a director he gets along with, which makes a lot of sense to me--especially now," recalled Reynolds, his remark referring to his recent tiffing with director Dick Richards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
The post was wildly inaccurate, but it did portend a contentious subplot to USC’s opening game against Alabama: the schools and their marching bands are tiffing over “Tusk,” the top-10 Fleetwood Mac hit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
They are still flirting and tiffing in character.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
The near unmaking of The Marrying Man and the on-set tiffing between its lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, made a much read and sermonized-over feature in Premiere magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one part of their journey they took their "tiffing," and after this they had to jump across a ditch, which the young officers cleared, but the major "jumped short."
From Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" by George Cruikshank
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