quarrel
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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
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
The prestige-competition, heretofore mostly economic, might force Karhide to emulate its larger neighbor, to become a nation instead of a family quarrel, as Estraven had said; to become, as Estraven had also said, patriotic.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
The two preachers have previously been detained by authorities, the most recent being in January, when they were summoned by police for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
From BBC β Jun. 15, 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
It was born in a hundred small quarrels, the quarrels of women whose children must live and play together and fight each other like cats and dogs.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Even after the 2024 pact, Overdeck and Siegel quarreled over whether either of them breached their contracts or fiduciary duties, a fight that went into arbitration last year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 1, 2026
Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 10, 2026
Japanese media have described Aoba as being thought of as a troublemaker who repeatedly changed contract jobs and apartments and quarreled with neighbors.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 24, 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
The evening before the family’s departure, the ancient woman sat in her wheelchair in a dim corner of the drawing room, watching through half-closed eyes as the family quarreled.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters β Sep. 14, 2022
On Wednesday, day seven of the trial, lead prosecutor Thomas Binger and Judge Bruce Schroeder loudly quarrelled in court.
From BBC β Nov. 10, 2021
In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.
From Slate β Jun. 8, 2021
Even in late middle age, the sisters quarrelled over what kind of hospital care their mother should receive.
From The Guardian β Jul. 26, 2020
Tycho also quarrelled with some of his tenants on the mainland and got into trouble with the ruling Council for neglecting the maintenance of a chapel that formed part of his estates.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
Meanwhile, quarreling among supervisors was getting worse, and Feinstein told a colleague she was sick of it.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 29, 2023
Clouds of seagulls take to the air in front of us, quarreling and shrieking.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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
This door was open; a light shone out of the room within: I heard thence a snarling, snatching sound, almost like a dog quarrelling.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«
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