quarrel
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"Cuba has no quarrel with the United States. We do have the need and the right to protect ourself. But we are willing to sit down," Fernandez de Cossio said.
From Barron's β Mar. 22, 2026
Maksim, eight, lists everything he has learnt in his patriotic education lessons: about great Russian poets and painters, about friendship and how not to quarrel.
From BBC β Mar. 20, 2026
The quarrel became so fiery that Lee MacPhail, the American League president, shifted Luciano off Orioles games.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 26, 2026
She’s not in the center of a quarrel.
From Salon β Feb. 18, 2026
He was back in Ithaca having a most desperate quarrel with Edward.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. OβBrien
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Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.
From Salon β Jul. 5, 2026
To avoid any quarrels, I suggest timing any stock sale, with the beneficiaries’ cooperation, so that no one inadvertently misses out on a dividend payment.
From MarketWatch β May 21, 2026
Mr. Zipperstein suggests that the real drama was not in the bedroom but at the writing desk, where Roth’s quarrels with himself became art.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 30, 2025
We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2024
For the rest of that evening there were no more quarrels.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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The Po, too, was not immune to war, especially in the 16th century, when neighboring France, Switzerland and the Vatican quarreled over ownership of crucial crossroads to Milan and other parts of Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 10, 2026
Whereas Jagger and Richards were the more outspoken members and principal songwriters who famously quarreled in their heyday, the more even-keeled Watts could rock a stadium, seemingly without breaking a sweat.
From Seattle Times β May 7, 2024
Some San Cristóbal residents have even quarreled with Spanish-language professors and authorities at the Canarian Language Academy who contend that this way of speaking equates to nothing more than a linguistic game.
From Scientific American β Oct. 12, 2023
“But what did they say, Ancient? What was it they quarreled about?”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters β Sep. 14, 2022
In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.
From Slate β Jun. 8, 2021
Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.
From Nature β Oct. 1, 2019
Mr Assange is an unattractive character who has quarrelled with almost all his former supporters.
From The Guardian β May 24, 2019
"Aye. A man named Falconer. The man you quarrelled wi' outside the Globe that day."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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Written by Mr. Carney and Peter McDonald, who also contributes a funny supporting turn as one of Rick’s band mates, it stumbles into a bog of bitterness, quarreling and unseemly behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 28, 2026
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.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 25, 2024
The quarreling neighbors haven’t met in a test series in 16 years and one-day international and Twenty20 series in 10 years.
From Washington Times β Oct. 13, 2023
Regardless, it still boils down to two rich guys quarreling and profiting off the public's interest in it a year after the incident that incited it.
From Salon β Mar. 7, 2023
The group kept quarreling until Loudwing let out a tremendous honk.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β May 16, 2026
If a siinqee stick is placed on the ground by a married woman between two quarrelling parties, it means the conflict must stop immediately out of respect.
From BBC β Mar. 11, 2025
The quarrelling neighbors haven’t met in a test series in 16 years and one-day international and Twenty20 series in 10 years.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 13, 2023
The quarrelling made military cooperation between them impossible, and eventually provoked the collapse of the wider Condor network, putting paid to the campaign in Europe.
From The Guardian β Sep. 3, 2020
“I heard him say that,” I said, alluding to statements my father had often made when quarrelling with my mother.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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