as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
this discussion is so silly we might as well altercate on how many angels can dance on the point of a needle
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Force an impatient couple to bicker in Route 23 traffic.—
Tyler Buchanan,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025 -
Somehow McKay keeps the movie spinning even after Dale and Brennan stop bickering and start sticking together: Adam Scott, as Brennan’s snobby, overachieving brother, makes a terrific common enemy.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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Current Social Science Research Approaches Are Limited For decades, Lahlou argues, the social sciences and their applications in fields as diverse as marketing and industrial psychology have focused primarily on individual psychology and interpersonal dynamics.—
Benjamin Voyer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Some Democrats, including potential 2028 presidential contenders Rahm Emanuel and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, argue that the party needs to moderate or focus less on such issues.—
Alex Thompson,
Axios,
22 Mar. 2025
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Among the federal lawsuits fighting to continue the program, a hearing is scheduled Monday in federal court in northern California on a motion to speed up the sharing of evidence.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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Earlier in the day, President Trump rejected reports that advisor Elon Musk would be briefed on how the U.S. would fight a hypothetical war with China.—
Tara Copp,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2025
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The women encourage their children to quarrel and fight, and teach them how it is done by actual combats with their neighbors.—
Robert Loerzel,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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Now isn’t the time to quarrel with the coach, so, purely for context: Atkinson was an assistant on the last Golden State Warriors team to win a title in 2022, but Poole did not start next to Curry.—
Joe Vardon,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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Although the IndyCar race starts 90 minutes after the Bristol race, the events will likely clash.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Since then, Angel has been clashing with Slingshot, the production company behind David, over its rights as the film’s distributor.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2025
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The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2016
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The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
15 May 2024
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The system was reportedly designed to reject an outsized number of legitimate claims, relying on the fact that many people wouldn’t dispute them.—
Ann Kowal Smith,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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General manager John Lynch did not dispute a report last month that teams are inquiring about Aiyuk.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2025
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He is embroiled in a feud with Damian Priest, which could mean the two men will brawl at some point in the show.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Pena, who was brawling with the homeless man, illegally entered the U.S. in 2019 under the Trump administration but was deported two days later.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
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