as in quarrel
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
got into a little tiff about what color sheets to buy for their bed
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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
like any couple, they occasionally tiff, but it's never anything serious
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Recent Examples of tiff
Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
This led to a tiff between Sam and Sierra in terms of if Andy should go next.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
And Machado, in a tiff with Dodger starter Jake Flaherty, tossed a ball at the screen below the railing that protects the Dodger dugout.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
The juxtaposition between the Payton-Nix tiff and Payton-Russell Wilson meltdown remains striking.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Brace yourself for delays, reschedules, and miscommunications on your plate, as both travel and communication are affected by Luna and Mercury’s astrological tiff.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
This led to a tiff between Sam and Sierra in terms of if Andy should go next.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
And Machado, in a tiff with Dodger starter Jake Flaherty, tossed a ball at the screen below the railing that protects the Dodger dugout.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
The juxtaposition between the Payton-Nix tiff and Payton-Russell Wilson meltdown remains striking.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
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That’s the main quarrel of opponents of such conservation projects.Christine Ro, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Experts at the conference floated the possibility that the aquatic quarrel could make its way to the Supreme Court, though that’s viewed as a crisis that should be averted.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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On a scene-to-scene level, Mr. Turner is packed full of delightful dialogue and wonderful scenes of 19th-century painters bickering and arguing, though its undercurrent is one of unstoppable modernity.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Sanders bickered with a reporter who asked about his plans for the rain.Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
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Jamie Foxx is thanking fans for their support after an altercation at his birthday dinner this weekend required him to get stitches.Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Things got worse for Curtis, who was arrested and charged with assault because of his altercation with assistant DA Daniels.Barry Levitt, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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Research has distinguished between three simple strategies to deal with neighbor disputes: avoidance of the party whose behavior is experienced as unneighborly; confronting the neighbor face-to-face; and relying on a third party to sort out the issue, e.g. the landlord or even police.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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Nearly a decade later, a dark storm cloud has descended upon his increasingly unpopular administration, with the resignation of a top Cabinet minister over a dispute about how to manage US president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Watch: Judge indefinitely postpones Donald Trump's hush money case sentencing That’s not the only case Trump and his team are fighting against.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Rice water contains antioxidants, which can help fight free radicals in your body.Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024
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The records put an end to a monthslong controversy over whether Winfrey was paid for endorsing the former Democratic presidential nominee.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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After Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of Todd Haynes’ gay romance film in September, just days before filming started, Haynes has spoken out for the first time about the controversy.Them, Them, 6 Dec. 2024
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What is Thomas Dickey arguing in Luigi Mangione's defense?Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Vance highlighted a passage from Bragg's 81-page legal brief, made public Tuesday, in which his team argued that no legal reasoning prevented Trump's sentencing from taking place before his inauguration.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiff. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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