tiff
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The tiff between the two rap stars was one of the most talked about hip-hop events in recent memory, chock-full of the salacious, “he said what?!” drama of reality TV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The Australian government has denied the timing of the decision was related to the trade tiff, saying a decade-long department review found the US had improved beef safety measures.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
The women get into a small tiff, reminiscent of moments in “Sex and the City” when Carrie felt more understood by her best friend than she wanted to admit.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 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
And the Wart looked round the busy kitchen, which was coloured by the flames tiff it looked like hell, with sorrowful affection.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
Many had started as tiffs on social media or other disputes that once would have been settled with words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2021
“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
We never laid a hand on each other again, and even though we’d get into plenty of verbal clashes, our tiffs tended to end the way our fistfight had, with us cracking up.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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When the lovers tiffed, the corpses looked "woebegone and reproachful."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week the two tiffed on the bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Miss Maitland only stared at this obscure announcement: so Fanny had to explain that Zoe and she had tiffed, and made it up, and Zoe had given her a brooch.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
But Lady Bayrose got tiffed at me, and at Aden shifted to a Cape boat.
From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
"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
Appearing for the first time after a summer of well-publicized tiffing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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