Thesaurus results for ALTERCATIONS

altercations

noun

plural of altercation

as in quarrels

an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions judging from all the slamming and banging, I'd say there was some sort of altercation going on next door

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Recent Examples of altercations Over the last few months, Taylor has been embroiled in a series of legal battles with Mortensen, first beginning in February with a pair of investigations by Utah police departments into allegations each made that the other acted violently during altercations that month. —

Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026 Durso alleged that Valle was upset after the previous altercations and lost his cool when his friend’s vehicle was damaged by the crowd of youths who rocked and shook the vehicle Valle and his friends arrived in. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026 Charles Melton plays an American GI named Private K who’s trying to locate his daughter and keeps getting into bloody altercations. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2026 Sunday’s defeat at Barcelona capped an embarrassing week for Madrid, marked by altercations between players in training that led the club to fine Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni 500,000 euros ($589,000) each. —

ABC News, 10 May 2026 Paul and Mortensen had been under investigation by both the Draper City Police Department and West Jordan Police Department regarding a series of allegations each made that the other had acted violently during altercations in February, as well as an incident that took place in 2024. —

Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 The arrest was the culminating incident in a string of altercations between the couple over their son Lyrik, then 5. —

Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025 There have been almost no physical altercations in the Little Scandinavia unit, for example. —

Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 19 Mar. 2025 Different altercations happened at both ends of the court, but eventually dissipated. —

Scott Thompson, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025

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Rounding out the top five names were seven write-in votes for the Sacramento Capitals or Capitols — which could be nicknamed the Caps to avoid quarrels over the spelling — and six votes for the Sacramento Stingers or Sting, referencing the collegiate Sacramento State Hornets.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
In a 2024 study, researchers found that chimpanzee mothers tended to step in to defend their children in quarrels—say, over food or space in a tree—in about half of cases the researchers observed in the wild.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 May 2026