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tiff

[tif] / tɪf /


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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

Murray told police he regarded the fight as a "tiff", the court was told.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2025

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

Biggest of all was the tiff in Schmidt’s office.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

In Vermont, tension over what the virus has done to daily life is revealed in Josh Manheimer’s house as repeated tiffs over the dinner dishes.

From Washington Post Apr. 11, 2020

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson and his wife had their first quarrel on the way from the church, and Auguste Comte and his wife tiffed going down the steps from the notary's.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 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

Appearing for the first time after a summer of well-publicized tiffing.

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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