squabble

Long may we squabble over the meaning of America; the freedom to differ helps define who we are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

When one chase scene halts as the stop-motion pursuers squabble about their battle cry, the evident labor in the aside elbows us to run with the idea that movements sabotage themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

And like in any squabble, there will be a winner and a loser.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026

Kaprice taught her kids to look out for one another, even when their inclination was to squabble.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

Ford told reporters on Monday that the neighbourly squabbles can be maddening.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

When Curran took the job, his background included more time wearing an earpiece than keeping his ear to the ground in Washington’s budgeting and political squabbles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Mammachi wrote to him regularly, with detailed descriptions of her sordid squabbles with her husband and her worries about Ammu’s future.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

She and Future have squabbled in court about their son and, in July, Future appeared to call out Wilson on the track “Turn Yo Clic Up,” further adding fuel to the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

I’ve always been the one for outdoor chores anyway, burning the trash and weeding, while my sisters squabbled about the dishes and such.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

One cannot avoid squabbling, she wrote, because it constitutes “the natural state of people pitted against each other, helplessly furious people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

At times, the supreme leader has presented himself as almost above politics - looking down on the squabbling between Iran's reformists and conservatives.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

His successor, Charles I, ultimately couldn’t avoid the Thirty Years’ War on the Continent; his squabbling with Parliament helped lead to the rebellion and civil war that engulfed Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

“I suppose if I were older,” he said, quietly enough to be speaking to himself, “I would say that you were being ridiculous. That our students are adults, not squabbling, bickersome boys.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss