as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
tedious departmental meetings at which staffers would argufy endlessly
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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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However, Students for Justice in Palestine argue the event threatens students’ emotional and physical safety, and is in violation of the school’s neutrality policies.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2025
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That match was famously fought in Kinshasa, Zaire, which is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
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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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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Then the market fell out, said Patrick Boel, managing director of development for Roundhouse.—
Marcus Dorsey,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Mar. 2025
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Last year, the U.S. fell out of the top 20 for the first time in the report's history, landing at No. 23.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 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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“Argufy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argufy. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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