blood feud

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Recent Examples of blood feud Fans are now bracing for Sunday’s grand finale, which is likely to feature the last round of the blood feud between Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and her brother Jamie (Wes Bentley). Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 This is a dark drama about a pair of Irish families who are shepherds and get into a blood feud over an incident of sheep rustling. Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 In the blood feuds and celebrity connections that often make up L.A. politics, Hochman’s immediate predecessor George Gascón suddenly jumped on the Menendez bandwagon in the dying days of his unsuccessful reelection campaign last fall. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2025 And Jimmy Uso Cody Rhodes and Jimmy Uso seemed to squash their beef dating back to Rhodes’ blood feud with the Bloodline. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blood feud
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Noun
  • President Donald Trump has declared bad blood with Taylor Swift.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 16 May 2025
  • Though Ancelotti didn’t pick Rivaldo often during their time at AC Milan together in the early 2000s, the ex-forward has always been publicly respectful of the Champions League’s most successful coach while stressing there is no bad blood between them.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • In all seriousness, this seems to be a distraction tactic to get people talking about a celebrity feud instead of his efforts to curb nationwide injunctions in an effort to push through an executive order ending birthright citizenship.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 May 2025
  • Combs has pleaded not guilty to all criminal counts and denies any wrongdoing. Combs and 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, have been engaged in a feud since the early 2000s, and Jackson has regularly shared his thoughts on Combs arrest and trial.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • His Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) places him in the most aggressive risk category.
    Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 19 May 2025
  • On Friday, his diagnosis was characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5).
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The project educates students about the dangers of hatred and bigotry and the importance of standing against all forms of prejudice.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, Republicans such as our current president spew contempt like volcanoes of hatred, prejudice and madness.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The Democratic contest for an Illinois Senate seat is shaping up as a test of the political power of Gov. JB Pritzker over a primary field of candidates who enter the race with deep animosity for one another and skepticism about the governor’s influence.
    Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • But as the conflict spirals, with decades of animosity between the countries and powerful nuclear arsenals pointed at one another, the administration has now signaled it would get involved.
    Christopher Shays, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Despite the public enmity between the two, Newsom reached out to the White House in hopes of working together on the creation of a $7.5-billion federal tax incentive to keep more productions in the U.S. Hollywood insiders have wanted a federal tax incentive program all along.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • The stakes of the negotiations couldn't be higher for the two nations closing in on half a century of enmity.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Among adults, infection usually results in symptoms, with jaundice occurring in more than 70% of patients, according to the CDC.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • Signs of liver injury can include abdominal pain, dark-colored urine, and jaundice.
    Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration’s antagonism toward the traditional transatlantic alliance could be the most consequential trigger of further European integration since the groundwork for the EU was laid in 1948.
    Arancha González Laya, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2025
  • Interestingly, when the researchers attempted to block the receptor (receptor antagonism is a common pharmacological effect of many commercial drugs), anxiety actually increased.
    Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025

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