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tiff

[tif] / tɪf /


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And for good measure, there's already been a very public tiff with the industry, after ministers started talking about price gouging and profiteering.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

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

In a year full of rap beef from artists like Megan, Minaj and Metro Boomin, Lamar took a grenade to his tiff with Drake and launched it.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

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

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

Legendary singer Dionne Warwick said that despite her tiffs with late composer Burt Bacharach, they always let each other know they were like family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

“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

Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the two tiffed on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They had tiffed occasionally, and broken off the friendship, and once I believe returned letters.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

"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

On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops.

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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