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[tif] / tɪf /


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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

She said their tiff boils down to a difference of opinion on the release of the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

The Australian government has denied the timing of the decision was related to the trade tiff, saying a decade-long department review found the US had improved beef safety measures.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

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

Apparently we are not quite over our little tiff of last night.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the two tiffed on the bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Maitland only stared at this obscure announcement: so Fanny had to explain that Zoe and she had tiffed, and made it up, and Zoe had given her a brooch.

From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade

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

"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

The near unmaking of The Marrying Man and the on-set tiffing between its lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, made a much read and sermonized-over feature in Premiere magazine.

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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