as in altercation
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
the two friends have been lonely and miserable since they had a falling-out
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as in bickering
to express different opinions about something often angrily
club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars
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as in proving
to come to be
I had planned to have a sports career, but things fell out otherwise
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Recent Examples of falling-out
Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2025
Still, any rumors of a falling-out with Sánchez appear to be unfounded.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2025
Jim Reineking, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Initial suspicions would put Santiago Caputo as the main culprit, given his public falling out with Karina and the Menem cousins.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Derrick McCray, the man in charge of flipping baby back ribs and wings over a hickory live fire, reopened on Lake Avenue over Fourth of July weekend, more than a year after illness and a falling-out with his landlord forced him to shut his 45th Street flagship in Riviera Beach.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2025
Still, any rumors of a falling-out with Sánchez appear to be unfounded.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2025
Verb
During the 2010 season, Young had a falling out with the team, and most notable head coach Jeff Fisher.
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Initial suspicions would put Santiago Caputo as the main culprit, given his public falling out with Karina and the Menem cousins.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for falling-out
Noun
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The Buffalo Bills ejected the fan who got into an altercation with Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson during Sunday night’s game at Highmark Stadium.—
Jenna West,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The altercation happened with about eight minutes remaining in the third quarter of the game.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Coaches are also bickering about money, a topic that would have felt out of place 10 years ago.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The casting here is perfection itself, with Cumberbatch and Colman bickering back and forth with all the drawing-room style of a new age Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall, or maybe the Burton and Taylor of The Taming of the Shrew with a dab of Virginia Woolf.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Arsenal know that and Smith will take no time proving it.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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And succeeding on Wall Street means proving it every day — a proposition only complicated by a retail world that is, well, more complicated.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The quarrel continued to escalate, spurring Ates to send the man his location.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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After getting into a quarrel with the passenger, Millise stabbed him in the right torso and slashed the left side of his face with a knife.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The emotional ballast of the film — Davidson’s bond with Dottie Achenbach (a wonderful Maxine Peake), the mother of one his childhood friends, who is also fighting her own health battles — also suffers from moments of incoherence, but the immense power of that bond goes a long way.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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And while Johnson’s team is still fighting to climb NASCAR’s competitive ladder, results are starting to follow.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Ultimately, the biggest reasons for optimism coming out of such a debilitating loss are a defense that held up to the test and a defensive line that was dominant in the second half.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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There are more things coming out.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nearly a year after being removed from Lincoln Heights' village council over a tax dispute, a leading community activist has had his seat restored by a state appeals court.—
David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Sep. 2025
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How the courts and legislatures balance the rights of the majority and minority in these disputes over the place of the Ten Commandments in public life may go a long way toward shaping the future of religious freedom in American public education.—
Lydia Artz,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At the conclusion of the state's case Wednesday, the defense moved to have the case dismissed, arguing the state had failed to prove its case.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Sep. 2025
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However, a Minnesota court struck down the binary trigger ban, arguing that the legislature violated the state constitution’s single-subject clause by burying the ban inside a sprawling spending bill.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Falling-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falling-out. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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