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bickering

adjective as in quarreling

noun as in difficulty

noun as in hairsplitting

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The two are constantly bickering about everything, and occasionally he breaks a door into splinters, though he never raises a hand against her.

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Macron had been wielding the unspoken threat of dissolving the National Assembly and holding parliamentary elections after his latest prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, abruptly resigned Monday amid bickering over his cabinet choices.

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“Every once in a while on the court, you’ll hear, like, the bickering from a sister standpoint, you know what I mean?”

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Then the show’s correspondents clumsily formed a chorus of praise that collapsed into bickering, which halted when Ronny Chieng told everyone, “Calm down . . . God, is this your first dictator?”

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Playing outlaws on the run, cornered men whose time had passed, bickering and bantering like an old married couple who can’t imagine a life without each other, they’re perfect together.

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