quarrel
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There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 5, 2026
Their quarrel was not over whether Arendt belonged to that people, but over what such belonging required of judgment.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 7, 2026
I had no quarrel with Cole recounting that lamentable story alongside mine, but we did have one occasional difference of emphasis.
From Slate β Aug. 3, 2026
"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
We had not had a fight or even a quarrel, but ever since Monday, Columbus Day, October 12, something that had always been between us no longer was.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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
A revised order was issued and the list of countries affected kept changing; there were intergovernmental quarrels along with protests from U.S. allies in the Muslim world.
From Salon β Jul. 21, 2024
He remained aloof, however, never participating in the quarrels between the pro-Zionist and anti-Zionist groups.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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
He and journalist Joy Reid publicly quarreled following her exit last year from MSNBC.
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 9, 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
She heard a cheer when one fell, and then the raised voices as they quarreled over whose throw had brought the fruit down.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Sometimes they quarrelled, but whenever that happened they solved it by imposing a time-out.
From The Guardian β May 9, 2020
Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.
From Nature β Oct. 1, 2019
The next day he wondered whether, perhaps, they had quarrelled.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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
“Then Tuesday or next week. Why are you quarreling James? Don’t you want to stay?”
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's β May 16, 2026
Michelle Pfeiffer is the matriarch of a quarrelling American family who come back together for the holidays - including fellow Oscar nominee Felicity Jones, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jason Schwartzman and dad Denis Leary.
From BBC β Dec. 13, 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
We were quarrelling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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