spat
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Humans should want more for themselves than a binary good-bad, or the answers to all of life’s questions spat out by a machine.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Bank of Canada announces an interest-rate decision at 9:45 a.m., where its assessment of the U.S.-Canadian trade spat will be in focus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Japanese stocks swung between mild gains and losses as investors digested the U.S.-Canada trade spat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He is not alone in having then been chewed up and spat out at Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Its beautiful surface had gone blank, and it spat back her letter.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
In a reminder of the delicate nature of their ties, diplomats between the two countries last week spatted over a South Korean lawmaker’s visit to disputed islets located in the waters between the two countries.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients of Scott and Fowles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again Publisher Bonfils refused to answer, clapped his derby upon his greying head, walked out on spatted feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their rope-soled shoes tapped and spatted on the pavement.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some subsection of the dinosaur community where people are spatting over science or fighting about feathers and scales.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
Their latest idea: Wrapping his foot in reinforcing spatting tape over the last three games, to minimize the chances of him rolling it again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Nelson, a Flower Mound Republican, said Monday of her House counterparts, “We’re not spatting with them.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
Thanks to the magic of Twitter, we can now experience all of the spinning, spatting, and snarking from both sides of the aisle in real time.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
He stepped down out of his automobile and walked around the crowd, spatting his gloved hands together, and looking them over critically.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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