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
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
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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
But Joan Aguado, South Pasadena’s film liaison, said neighborhoods tend to be self-regulating, so the city rarely needs to intervene in tiffs among property owners over film shoots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
As narrated by Damon Runyon in his signature “Guys and Dolls” style, they describe the tiffs and rivalries among the habitués of a celestial saloon.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 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
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Last week the two tiffed on the bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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 Hill, Grace Brooks
But Lady Bayrose got tiffed at me, and at Aden shifted to a Cape boat.
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
"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
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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 Cruikshank, George
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