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Recent Examples of blood feud
But many try to portray Iran’s hatred of Israel as some kind of thousand-year-old blood feud.
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Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
One of the media industry’s great blood feuds could be headed for détente, as the United Talent Agency and the advertising dealmaker Michael Kassan appear close to reaching a settlement that could be announced in time for the annual Cannes Lions festival later this month.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 June 2025
This season, the main tension appears to be more about Ellie becoming mature enough to accept that not all heroes have to make dramatic sacrifices or win a blood feud.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
But also worth noting is that Musk is in a separate blood feud with Altman, who wants pretty much no regulation at all.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
One of the media industry’s great blood feuds could be headed for détente, as the United Talent Agency and the advertising dealmaker Michael Kassan appear close to reaching a settlement that could be announced in time for the annual Cannes Lions festival later this month.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 June 2025
This season, the main tension appears to be more about Ellie becoming mature enough to accept that not all heroes have to make dramatic sacrifices or win a blood feud.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
But also worth noting is that Musk is in a separate blood feud with Altman, who wants pretty much no regulation at all.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blood feud
Noun
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In the end, all of the talk of bad blood and rumors led towards this one moment.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy doesn’t want any bad blood with Jan Ravnik.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2025
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Much of this strife, including throughout the 1967-1970 civil war and subsequent clashes over the decades, has also been closely tied to feuds across ethnic and territorial lines.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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There are guns, horses, ghosts, a primal struggle for survival in hostile terrain, family feuds and a steadily intensifying sense of mortal threat, as Old Porch’s ambition and psychopathy escalate the drama.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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In the six years since its debut, the show has become an internet sensation, with viewers online embracing the musical's campy humor, jaw-dropping stage illusions and sing-along score, with bootlegs of the production going viral on TikTok and YouTube.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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State scores, however, have been slowly improving since 2021.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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My darling, hatred takes the beauty away.—
Tracee Ellis Ross,
Glamour,
27 Oct. 2025
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Muschietti touched on this in his movies — the bullying of Mike Hanlon and the hate-crime murder of Adrian Mellon — including the way Pennywise fosters and foments the hatred already lurking in the hearts of Derry’s citizens.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2025
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Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza have produced a mutual animosity that won’t soon disappear.—
Dennis Ross,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Now, nine weeks into the season, animosity between the two sides remains evident.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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There is only scorched earth, and mockery, and enmity.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Orbán has maintained enmity toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and blamed Europe’s support for Kyiv as prolonging the war.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This causes the skin and the whites of the eyes to take on a yellowish hue, known as jaundice.—
Angela Ryan Lee,
Verywell Health,
23 Sep. 2025
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By the time red flags like fatigue, jaundice, swelling or easy bruising appear, the damage may already be done, the doctor warned.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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The interests of humanity are best served by cooperation, not a policy of antagonism that seeks to slice up the world into unhappy spheres of interest, dominated by modern-day colonial overlords.—
Gustavo Petro,
Time,
9 Nov. 2025
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The historian Odd Arne Westad offers an example of this dynamic in the British-German antagonism that precipitated World War I.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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