quarrel

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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

On Friday morning, Bernadette Joy, 40, and her husband AJ, 44, engaged in what seemed like a trivial couple’s quarrel: where to go grocery shopping that night.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 25, 2026

The quarrel here isn’t over the terms of an energy contract or the routing of a pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 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 • Dec. 20, 2025

There were many voices round about, and though orc-speech sounded at all times full of hate and anger, it seemed plain that something like a quarrel had begun, and was getting hotter.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien