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 â Sep. 5, 2026
As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.
From Slate â Jun. 26, 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 â Mar. 20, 2026
She is also in a quarrel with Erika Kirk over unsubstantiated claims of a conspiracy involving the US and Israeli governments in the killing of her husband.
From Barron's â Dec. 20, 2025
It sounded like the beginning of a quarrel.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.
From Salon â 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 â 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 â Oct. 30, 2025
We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.
From BBC â Sep. 28, 2024
She quarrels, curses, cries, feels sorry for herself, laughs and starts all over again.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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 â Apr. 1, 2026
Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.
From Los Angeles Times â 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 â 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 â Oct. 12, 2023
Shawn, the next oldest, had quarreled with Dad a few months before and taken off.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.
From Reuters â Sep. 14, 2022
In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.
From Slate â Jun. 8, 2021
Sometimes they quarrelled, but whenever that happened they solved it by imposing a time-out.
From The Guardian â May 9, 2020
Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.
From Nature â Oct. 1, 2019
“I did, but we quarrelled so much it wore itself out.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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 â May 28, 2026
For much of the production, directed by George C. Wolfe, I was quibbling and quarreling with the reigning queen of Broadway.
From Los Angeles Times â Mar. 31, 2025
The quarreling threatens to undermine conservation goals because all decisions must be unanimous.
From Seattle Times â Oct. 13, 2023
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 â Oct. 13, 2023
The Lake Sprites have been quarreling all day; now they’re sulking.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".
From Barron's â May 16, 2026
"It's not too late to repair. Stop quarrelling - now."
From Reuters â Oct. 17, 2023
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 â Oct. 13, 2023
"A blue tit is a dominant species - it tends to win in interactions and fighting for food or quarrelling for nest sites," explains Dr Lees.
From BBC â Aug. 27, 2021
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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