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[tif] / tɪf /


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And for good measure, there's already been a very public tiff with the industry, after ministers started talking about price gouging and profiteering.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

Perhaps most amusing is Mr. Booker’s tiff with Conan O’Brien, who made a joke about the city of Newark.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

In a year full of rap beef from artists like Megan, Minaj and Metro Boomin, Lamar took a grenade to his tiff with Drake and launched it.

From Salon Dec. 28, 2024

Back in 2019, Trump’s call caused a brief diplomatic tiff with Denmark, under whose sovereignty the vast island falls.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2024

One girl in chiffon had a tiff with her date and ran off toward the first tee, calling, “Wait for me!”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

She said this attitude can elevate minor tiffs on social media into real life fights on campus.

From Washington Times Aug. 29, 2023

The regular tiffs between Mr. Sunak’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, and European leaders like President Emmanuel Macron of France played better in England than they did in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2023

Many had started as tiffs on social media or other disputes that once would have been settled with words.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2021

Shelton, who often tiffs with Levine on the show, posted on Twitter: "Gonna miss working with that idiot."

From Fox News May 24, 2019

We never laid a hand on each other again, and even though we’d get into plenty of verbal clashes, our tiffs tended to end the way our fistfight had, with us cracking up.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the two tiffed on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the lovers tiffed, the corpses looked "woebegone and reproachful."

From Time Magazine Archive

And if he got tiffed he would refuse to do a thing.

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

They had tiffed occasionally, and broken off the friendship, and once I believe returned letters.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

"Clint likes a director he gets along with, which makes a lot of sense to me--especially now," recalled Reynolds, his remark referring to his recent tiffing with director Dick Richards.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2018

The post was wildly inaccurate, but it did portend a contentious subplot to USC’s opening game against Alabama: the schools and their marching bands are tiffing over “Tusk,” the top-10 Fleetwood Mac hit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2016

They are still flirting and tiffing in character.

From The Guardian Jul. 13, 2013

Appearing for the first time after a summer of well-publicized tiffing.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one part of their journey they took their "tiffing," and after this they had to jump across a ditch, which the young officers cleared, but the major "jumped short."

From Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers" by George Cruikshank




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