Thesaurus / spat
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“We sat on the opposite side of the table with lawsuits with each other,” Gelsinger said, referencing the companies’ various legal spats, including a patent lawsuit that they eventually settled in 2011.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NVIDIA AND VMWARE’S BIG NEW A.I. DEALJONATHANVANIAN2015SEPTEMBER 29, 2020FORTUNEThose spats seem to be heating up as publisher pursuit of revenue during the coronavirus-induced recession becomes increasingly fraught.
STATE OF PLAY: WHERE THE BATTLE WITH GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK TO PAY FOR NEWS IS HOTTESTLUCINDA SOUTHERNSEPTEMBER 7, 2020DIGIDAYThe famous director was late, and the small talk stuttered and spat like an old truck on a bumpy road.
‘THE DREAM ARCHITECTS’: INSIDE THE MAKING OF GAMING’S BIGGEST FRANCHISESRACHEL KINGSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEEvery so often, the spat between the two digital operations reemerges.
IT’S 2020, AND CNN AND FOX NEWS ARE STILL BATTLING OVER COMSCORE NUMBERSSTEVEN PERLBERGJULY 31, 2020DIGIDAYWe see a couple shouting or arguing or something, we don’t know is this really an emergency, or is this just two people having a spat.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICSLong before we got there the deep-throated thunder was growling over us, and the clouds spat occasional flurries of rain.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRComing to the map of Europe, he smothered Russia with kisses and spat on all the rest of the world.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYThen he spat upon the ground, and with an exaggerated shrug of his shoulders re-entered the house.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBig Sid turned around, spat out his cigaret, heeled it into the concrete.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe sputum, spat out or coughed out, is a means whereby the disease is spread.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYWORDS RELATED TO SPAT
- altercate
- battle
- bicker
- brawl
- break with
- bring action
- clash
- contend
- contest
- controversialize
- controvert
- debate
- differ
- disaccord
- discept
- discord
- dispute
- dissent
- divide
- fall out
- feud
- fight
- go for the jugular
- haggle
- have words
- jump on
- lay into
- let have it
- logomachize
- object
- oppose
- palter
- quarrel
- quibble
- rip
- row
- scrap
- set to
- skirmish
- spar
- spat
- sue
- take issue
- take on
- war
- wrangle
- zap
- altercation
- animosity
- antagonism
- argument
- atmospherics
- bickering
- breach
- break
- clash
- clashing
- conflict
- contention
- contest
- controversy
- cross-purposes
- debate
- difference
- discord
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunion
- disunity
- division
- divisiveness
- falling out
- feud
- fight
- friction
- hassle
- hostility
- ill feeling
- ill will
- jarring
- misunderstanding
- opposition
- rupture
- spat
- split
- squabble
- strife
- tension
- variance
- vendetta
- words
- wrangle
- altercations
- animosities
- antagonisms
- arguments
- atmospheric
- bickerings
- breaches
- breaks
- clashes
- clashings
- conflicts
- contentions
- contests
- controversies
- cross-purposes
- debates
- differences
- discords
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunions
- disunity
- divisions
- divisiveness
- feuds
- fights
- frictions
- hassles
- hostilities
- ill feelings
- ill wills
- jarrings
- misunderstandings
- oppositions
- ruptures
- spats
- splits
- squabbles
- strife
- tensions
- variances
- vendettas
- words
- wrangles
- bone
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- clinker
- conflict
- contention
- denial
- difference
- disaccord
- discord
- dissension
- dissidence
- disunity
- far cry
- flak
- hassle
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- misbelief
- nonagreement
- nonconcurrence
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nope
- objection
- opposition
- poles apart
- protest
- refusal
- resistance
- schism
- sour note
- spat
- split
- strife
- unorthodoxy
- variance
- argument
- battle royal
- beef
- bloodshed
- blowup
- bout
- brannigan
- brawling
- brush
- combat
- conflict
- contention
- dispute
- donnybrook
- exchange
- flap
- fracas
- free-for-all
- go
- hassle
- hell broke loose
- hostility
- joust
- match
- melee
- mix
- punch out
- riot
- rough-and-tumble
- roughhouse
- row
- rowdy
- rumble
- rumpus
- run-in
- scramble
- scrap
- scrimmage
- scuffle
- set-to
- spat
- strife
- struggle
- tiff
- war
- warfare
- words
- wrangle
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