Noun
got into a little tiff about what color sheets to buy for their bed Verb
like any couple, they occasionally tiff, but it's never anything serious
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Noun
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra Sinatra, a dozen years younger than Crosby, was inspired by the crooner and as his star rose, the media attempted to create a tiff between the two in the 1940s.—James Powel, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024 Call it a spud spat or tater tiff, but in the back offices of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, there is talk of removing the potato’s designation as a vegetable and recategorizing it as a grain.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024 The ladies’ tiff, which even included ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, has since been deleted, but fast fingered followers managed to get a screenshot.—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024 To receive this newsletter in your email, subscribe here.
'KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE' - 'American Idol' contestant and Luke Bryan have awkward tiff, mocks judge’s country twang.—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024 Criticism against a powerful figure could seem harmless — a mean tweet, a public tiff, a disapproving statement.—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2024 Eve Morey, Lucinda Armstrong Hall and Jillian Nguyen play the other residents of the women’s shelter, and while there are minor tiffs among them, the more profound relationship is a sharing of sadness and strength that obliterates differences of ethnicity and class.—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024 After the tiff with Tesla, the Giving Pies bakery has been receiving 200 or so daily customers, compared to 30 or 40 on a typical day, Rasetarinera told Fox Business.—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024 Behind me, a couple begins having a heated tiff about who should be carrying a particularly bulky suitcase.—Jessica Burrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
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