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Recent Examples of catfight
Huge flat-screens split the difference, airing ESPN and Bravo side by side, with football tackles and catfights vying for diners’ attention.
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Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
Shelly is more socially astute than Donald, and gets into a gnarly catfight with her hubby’s much younger, social-media-climbing personal assistant/girlfriend V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman), who loves flouting how smitten Sterling is with her.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
Jack Hill uses this location to stage one of the great catfights in exploitation film history.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Political consultant/producer Andy Cohen has glamorized the catfight — a step down from Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 May 2024
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Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
Shelly is more socially astute than Donald, and gets into a gnarly catfight with her hubby’s much younger, social-media-climbing personal assistant/girlfriend V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman), who loves flouting how smitten Sterling is with her.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
Jack Hill uses this location to stage one of the great catfights in exploitation film history.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Political consultant/producer Andy Cohen has glamorized the catfight — a step down from Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catfight
Noun
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That is understandable given that the title race and top-flight survival are the league’s most consequential tussles.—
Elias Burke,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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At some point, the driver got out of the car and got into a tussle with Reese and Girvin.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2025
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The meeting's purpose was to improve relations and get a minerals deal signed, after a public squabble last week between the two leaders.—
Lauren Floyd,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Tenants over the decades included poet Kenneth Patchen, the cult-magazine editor L. Scott Bailey, and a pair of married actors who wrote and produced a 1949 television show about their squabbles upstairs.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
19 Feb. 2025
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Since Inauguration Day, as President Trump has sought to break the federal government, Christian leaders—tangling with Trump and, particularly, with his Vice-President, J. D. Vance—have wound up in a public dustup over the nature of charity.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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This is a worthy topic due to the prevailing media handwringing that due to post-election disagreements, there will be salty dustups at the Thanksgiving table.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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The killings helped ignite the Revolutionary War that began following the April 19, 1775, skirmishes called the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the vastly bloodier June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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Since the onset of Israel’s war against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces engaged in cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah – including ground operations on Lebanese soil – until a ceasefire deal was struck late last year.—
Greg Norman,
Fox News,
28 Feb. 2025
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While some Iranian reformists have traditionally advocated for talks with the U.S., the Oval Office altercation has led to a reassessment.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Not that this is necessarily the reason but an AI bot making Oscar predictions is forecasting a Will Smith/Chris Rock-style altercation between Brody and Chalamet.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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Sridhar Ramaswamy has a war cabinet of workers and frequently gets into quarrels with staffers over AI ambition.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2025
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He’s been the attorney general for the state the last eight years, regularly an ally of litigation-ready Gov. Roy Cooper in quarrels with the Legislature.—
Alan Wooten | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Jan. 2025
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Duke won 76-65 on the road in Louisville in the only regular-season clash between these teams.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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This style of play can make games often feel like the climax of a Star Wars movie where the action of the film cuts between clashes between starships and heroes on the ground.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Trade spats and tariff tiffs, reciprocity and revenge all are piling up as President Donald Trump seems hellbent on upending various long-standing alliances, as well as the country’s once solid economy.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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The governor and mayor wrestled for control and credit before and after the blockbuster event, with Pritzker and allies winning out in a tiff over host committee leadership, and the two claiming credit for the event’s success when worries about out-of-control protests did not come to pass.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Catfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catfight. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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