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quarrel

[kwawr-uhl, kwor-] / ˈkwɔr əl, ˈkwɒr- /




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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 ● Sep. 5, 2026

As exercises in ordinary language, those analogies are difficult to quarrel with.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Rao has dealt with a series of stress tests this year, chief among them the company’s quarrel with the Defense Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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 ● Mar. 20, 2026

Around here it’s serious business when you got a quarrel with your neighbor and you got to carry it as far as the law.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Ms. Wilde and Mr. Rogen’s fast-paced, zig-zagging, slightly crazy quarrels create the sense that these two people have known each other for a very long time and have a special talent for mutual aggravation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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 ● May 21, 2026

We would say the solution starts with people power, not more academic quarrels.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024

In contrast, time after time, quarrels between skilled and unskilled laborers left the work force weak and defeated.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Instead of bold action, English said, European leaders have quarreled over internal divisions and rivalries.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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 ● 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 ● Oct. 12, 2023

On this point, Stanton thought Anthony was being unreasonable, and the two friends quarreled.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

But it has quarrelled with neighbours and allies since taking power.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2022

In many of these cases, passengers have quarrelled with their flight attendants over mask use.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2021

Here, in the legendary birthplace of AI, they quarrelled over what to call their still-slumbering creation.

From Nature ● Oct. 1, 2019

When the two men quarrelled at a dinner in Manchester Square in London, Phillips witnessed Beckett’s artistic intransigence at first hand.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 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 ● 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 ● Mar. 31, 2025

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 ● 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 ● Oct. 13, 2023

“Look, it’s no use quarreling among ourselves. We should be thinking of a solution. Come on, you two, stop sulking and be pals again.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

According to the police, "there was a tense atmosphere and some quarrelling".

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

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 ● 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 ● Aug. 27, 2021

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 ● Sep. 3, 2020

As usual they were quarrelling, and being of different breeds they used the Common Speech after their fashion.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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