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Recent Examples of blood feud
Damian Priest Drew McIntyre vs. Damian Priest is making a slow-climb as one of WWE’s best blood feuds.
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Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
The blood feud that began with Chris Eubank Sr. and Nigel Benn decades ago has manifested in their sons, who’ve lived their careers in the shadows of their fathers' rivalry.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Maybe Sam Nivola and Leslie Bibb were in a secret blood feud.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
Cody Rhodes 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
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Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
The blood feud that began with Chris Eubank Sr. and Nigel Benn decades ago has manifested in their sons, who’ve lived their careers in the shadows of their fathers' rivalry.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Maybe Sam Nivola and Leslie Bibb were in a secret blood feud.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
Cody Rhodes 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blood feud
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Could this bad blood spill over to the rest of this series between the teams?—
Mike Digiovanna,
Oc Register,
21 June 2025
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Canada and India are reportedly set to announce a new intelligence-sharing initiative after years of bad blood stemming from assassinations in the North American country linked to the Indian government.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 June 2025
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The feud escalated after the university openly defied demands to overhaul Harvard policies around campus protests, admissions, hiring and other issues.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Saying Anti-Transgender Sports Bill 'Does Not Protect Women' Biles and Gaines’ social media feud began on June 6, when Gaines made anti-trans remarks about a transgender softball player while commenting on a celebratory post from the Minnesota State High School League.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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Here are the inspection scores and violations for restaurants within the city limits of Arlington for June 8th - June 21st, 2025 A score of 100 is a perfect score and 70 is considered to be extremely poor.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2025
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The first half, directed by Sam Bailey, shapes into a heist procedural, albeit one where the victims are too generic for the scores to be all that satisfying.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
25 June 2025
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It's been very difficult to see just how much of this hatred has been normalized.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
1 July 2025
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Period drama enthusiasts will be interested to know that Wright set the movie in the late-18th century instead of the early-19th century in part because of his hatred of empire waist dresses.—
Lia Beck,
EW.com,
25 June 2025
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While the actual Mafia was rife with violence, animosity and bloodshed, Pileggi and Levinson's adaptation was humorous and, at times, empathetic toward the reality of being an aging criminal.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Months of retaliations and animosity followed, including Trump repeatedly suggesting that Canada become the 51st state.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
27 June 2025
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The isle of Berk is an isolated, faraway land where the Vikings and dragons have been at enmity with one another for generations.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
12 June 2025
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The flaming comet of enmity that streaked through the national conversation Thursday was spectacular.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
5 June 2025
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These include the hallmark symptoms like jaundice (yellowing of skin and the whites of the eyes), abdominal pain that’s focused on the right side of the stomach — near the liver — and dark urine.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
23 June 2025
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When the jaundice didn't clear up, Mackenzie was referred to the Children’s Hospital Colorado.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
16 June 2025
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An important aspect of the kinship between Irish and Black American culture is the spirit of subversion and play that arises because of this simultaneous dependence and antagonism.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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The ethnic antagonism in The Fabelmans, from 2022, suggests that Spielberg came to distrust the parochialism that the white Anglo-Saxon Beach Boys represented, along with the diversity that Americans had struggled against.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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