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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

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

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

So he had brought the goblet home again, because of the quarrel with Setma, no doubt, because he had so far found no other riverman who would smuggle his treasure out of Thebes.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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 ● 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 ● 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 ● Oct. 30, 2025

I then appealed for an organizational structure that would include provisions for artistic work of all types, hoping in this way to eliminate constant quarrels over tactics and strategy.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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 ● Apr. 1, 2026

She added: “I knew he was unhappy at home. I wasn’t the little sweet coffee-tea-or-me wife. We quarreled a lot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

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

Neighbors said he often quarreled with other residents in various apartment buildings he lived in near Tokyo.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

I had a turn with the shark, but when everyone quarreled over who was next, Mrs. Moss stowed it away.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Gainsborough was a founder member but often quarrelled with the academy, particularly over the hanging of his pictures in the Annual Exhibition.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024

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

He took it as a personal affront and quarrelled with everyone in the line of hotel command from the bellhop to the manager.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

We weren’t fighting, but we were quarreling, and doing it attorney-style.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

"It's not too late to repair. Stop quarrelling - now."

From Reuters ● 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 ● 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

‘We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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