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quarreling

adjective as in disagreeing

adjective as in fighting

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James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman played the quarreling brothers from Oasis, Noel and Liam Gallagher, but Ego Nwodim hit harder as Monica, an overworked Amazon employee still recovering from the company’s recent two-day sales event.

The announcement of the historic funding followed a ceremony where officials from the EPA and the local air district signed a slate of new clean air commitments — signaling a renewed willingness to cooperate after more than two years of quarreling over Southern California’s noncompliance with federal smog rules.

They checked in on each other when they were sick, met each other’s families and spent long hours debating, quarreling and compromising in the fight against global warming.

New Hampshire and the Democratic National Committee are still quarreling over the state’s refusal to move its primary back.

Stras presents this information using language laced with contempt for the very concept of voting rights: “Quarreling over district lines begins like clockwork every ten years,” he says; the plaintiffs who oppose the map, he sighs, “sued nearly everyone who had anything to do with it.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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