variants
or battle royals
or battles royale
or battle royales
as in quarrels
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
the sisters had a battle royal over whose turn it was to use the family car
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Noun
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However, lovers’ quarrels or difficulty dealing with children (hissy fits or meltdowns) might occur.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Fraternal security Gulf states have had significant internal quarrels over the years but remain bound by mutual defense treaties signed decades ago.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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India also has border disputes with China, whose foreign ministers recently met in New Delhi for talks.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bedtime conversations, small disagreements at the dinner table, or how respect is shown within the family all provide practice in empathy and fairness.—
Alex Shoemaker,
Parents,
26 Sep. 2025
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As Shetty noted during the podcast, Rowling also implied in a March 2025 X post that her disagreements with Watson and Radcliffe have negatively impacted her impression of the Potter films.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The storyline is propulsive with suspense, action, fights and killings.—
Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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In March 2022, police were breaking up fights in that same block of Caldwell Street in a parking lot outside Brooklyn Lounge when a man got a rifle and began firing at officers.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Sep. 2025
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The volume coming from the stage had never been so loud; production staff handed out earplugs to people in the first few rows.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Battles royal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battles%20royal. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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