contretemps

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Now comes this week’s contretemps over the “Late Show” cancellation of a broadcast interview with Talarico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Aston Villa team-mates Anwar El Ghazi and Tyrone Mings' contretemps came in a goalless draw with West Ham.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

It’s enough to make an artistic director throw up a white flag, though Sachs’ decision to retire had nothing to do with this latest contretemps.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Aside from one episode in which he threw a rubber chicken at a persistent questioner, he coolly conveyed at press briefings the sensitivity of the diplomatic contretemps.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

His specific reference was to a contretemps in August 1943 over Rossi Lomanitz, a twenty-one-year-old Rad Lab physicist who was valued as a protege by both Lawrence and Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik