spats
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The two seemed to relish their occasional public spats over policy.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
While the first film, directed by David Fincher, cleverly used a nonlinear narrative and legal spats to make the rise of Facebook a suspenseful yarn, the second one is far more ambitious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Public spats over fouls and a fixation on transgender policy have overshadowed the WNBA’s rising attendance and TV audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Right now, I couldn’t buy spats for a hummingbird.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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