as in altercation
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
like any couple, they have their spats
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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
we tend to spat over money more than anything else
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Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
The spat’s timing is terrible for consumers, the result of an impasse that came after the companies haggled for weeks over the carriage fees Disney receives for its programming.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
Beyoncé just as effectively snarled and spat, working her voice into a throaty rasp or frantic lather that implied serious consequences for challengers and haters.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
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Noun
The diplomatic spat between Israel and some European leaders burst into the open this week.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
The spat’s timing is terrible for consumers, the result of an impasse that came after the companies haggled for weeks over the carriage fees Disney receives for its programming.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
Verb
South Carolina was on the east bank and Georgia on the west; the temperature was in the fifties, and gray clouds spat water in our faces.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
Beyoncé just as effectively snarled and spat, working her voice into a throaty rasp or frantic lather that implied serious consequences for challengers and haters.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
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The altercation From left, Shane Anderson, Alex Pennig and Matthew Ecker inside Camp Bar.Hannah Vair, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2024
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And outside of a police altercation that rattles one sensitive organizer, thankfully nothing like the gun violence seen in Kopple’s film happens here.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Right out of the gate, the brothers are in a contentious mood, needling each other with elbows and bickering like little siblings.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
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Lehane urged some of the largest crypto investors and companies, many of whom were bickering on Twitter, to instead form a coalition devoted to changing the public narrative.Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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The farmers’ quarrels with vampires make sense, especially in smaller cattle herds, where losing even one cow can significantly hurt a farmer’s livelihood.Sebastian Stockmaier, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2024
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Khodr was concerned about rising tensions between the two communities competing for limited aid, and opened separate shelters to avoid quarrels; fifty-nine for Lebanese and five for Syrians.Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Whitehouse, the senator who requested the report, is using the findings to argue for higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, echoing the Harris platform.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Catch up quick: The FTC argued the merger would reduce head-to-head competition in the U.S. handbag market and enable them to raise prices for consumers.Kimberly Chin, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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China has already filed a lawsuit under the World Trade Organization dispute settlement mechanism.Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
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Trump and his allies asked the court in 2020 to take up a series of post-election disputes challenging President Joe Biden’s win, as the ex-president fought in court to try and overturn the election results.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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The Santa Clara County Fire Department has more than three times the space to fight fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains with last week’s opening of the Redwood Fire Station.Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Holloway has fought at lightweight five times in his professional MMA career.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Such calls have been driven by a slew of controversies involving conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas who have both been accused of accepting luxury gifts and vacations from wealthy GOP donors without properly disclosing them on federal financial forms.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
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These controversies led Discord to shut down the site.Earl Carr, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Arab nations that had spent decades brawling with Iran for regional influence are now opting to engage with it again.Mostafa Salem, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
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Backstage, Reed and Rollins brawled for a third time as a furious Adam Pearce made their match official for Crown Jewel.Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Spat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spat. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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