tiff
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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
Levin objected, and their tiff is growing increasingly heated as they bicker online.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 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
And the Wart looked round the busy kitchen, which was coloured by the flames tiff it looked like hell, with sorrowful affection.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
He had minor tiffs with Anita in the past that have evolved into major slights, but his neighbors badger him into going.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
As narrated by Damon Runyon in his signature “Guys and Dolls” style, they describe the tiffs and rivalries among the habitués of a celestial saloon.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2021
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
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Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week the two tiffed on the bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When the lovers tiffed, the corpses looked "woebegone and reproachful."
From Time Magazine Archive
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But Lady Bayrose got tiffed at me, and at Aden shifted to a Cape boat.
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
Samuel Johnson and his wife had their first quarrel on the way from the church, and Auguste Comte and his wife tiffed going down the steps from the notary's.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
"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
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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 Cruikshank, George
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