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tiff

[tif] / tɪf /


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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

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

Last week the two tiffed on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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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