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squabble

[skwob-uhl] / ˈskwɒb əl /




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We’ve forgotten how to squabble or storm in-person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But this squabble between Goliaths undersells that ordinary online business and regular customers are going to find themselves at odds with each other plenty as more people start deploying these little robot gophers.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

If one does not appreciate the nature and importance of the squabble, Freidenberg maintained, one cannot really grasp how totalitarianism poisons every moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

There was a time when the public picked a team in the Murdoch family’s squabble.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

I may be grateful that Charles and Isaac, who were by his side, turned their heads away, ashamed at our squabble.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The voices of the characters come through as though we’re eavesdropping from a discreet distance on their banter and squabbles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

And as the oldest baby boomers turn 80, an age when health issues tend to become more complex, family squabbles over eldercare will likely increase, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The lead-up to the tournament was punctuated by squabbles over trade, security and harsh immigration policies in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

She continued: "When you take out a major leader, there's a detonation of a struggle to take control in that vacuum. So, you'll see these squabbles for power in different parts of the country."

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

"Look, this is not my problem. You all can sort out your family squabbles and leave my family way out of it."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Top Republican and Democratic lawyers squabbled over the details of Civil War “field voting,” when ballots were collected from Union soldiers and transported back home after the election.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

The boxers squabbled like petulant schoolchildren at a news conference in February, with Eubank holding court, taking aim at everyone in his eyeline, including Benn and Hearn.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

O'Donnell and Trump have squabbled publicly and repeatedly since her first stint as a co-host on ABC's "The View."

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

Executives at Mistral, meanwhile, squabbled online with a researcher from an Elon Musk-backed nonprofit that aims to prevent “existential risk” from AI.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

We squabbled now and then, as families will.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

After a decade of stalled negotiations, public squabbling and false starts, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will finally meet in the ring on 11 December at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It was a summit of squabbling from the start.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

An issue like that can intensify the squabbling when a death occurs in the family.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

"He's looking after us while me and Jude are squabbling with each other," Rogers said.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Even now, during the greatest...the awesome-est...the most spectacular thing that had ever happened in all eleven years of Ella Durand's life, her parents were squabbling and telling her what to do.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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