as in dispute
a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups
The workers' feud with management concerns health benefits and pay increases. Because of a family feud, they did not see each other for a decade.
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Recent Examples of feud
More specifically, there is a feud between two brothers and a specific religious context.
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Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
As usual, 50 Cent didn’t miss a chance to troll Ja Rule, and the G-Unit boss reposted the footage to his Instagram on Monday, adding another chapter to their 25-plus-year feud.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2026
The move follows a bitter feud last spring between DeSantis and House Republicans over sweeping immigration legislation, when House leaders accused the governor’s office of advancing costly enforcement measures without sufficient consultation or budget transparency.
—Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
There's a bitter feud between two city leaders.
—Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 11 Feb. 2026
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Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
As usual, 50 Cent didn’t miss a chance to troll Ja Rule, and the G-Unit boss reposted the footage to his Instagram on Monday, adding another chapter to their 25-plus-year feud.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2026
The move follows a bitter feud last spring between DeSantis and House Republicans over sweeping immigration legislation, when House leaders accused the governor’s office of advancing costly enforcement measures without sufficient consultation or budget transparency.
—Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
There's a bitter feud between two city leaders.
—Amanda Luberto, AZCentral.com, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feud
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When disputes arise, most can be kept behind closed doors.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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The top pros were held out of the last two Winter Olympics, in 2018 over a dispute between the players and the IOC, and in 2022 because of COVID-19 interruptions in scheduling.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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The victim was stabbed multiple times in the back as the quarrel escalated, police said.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
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This time, the quarrel between state and Hamilton County leaders is about language, slipped into a lengthy bill, that would nullify rental cap ordinances.—
Jake Allen,
IndyStar,
11 Feb. 2026
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Dorgan had attended other hockey games without issue, and there’s no evidence so far that an altercation had occurred at the rink before the killings.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Transformers actor was arrested in New Orleans after an alleged physical altercation outside of a Royal Street business.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb. 2026
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Their misunderstanding of the values of American multiculturalism, and specifically the contributions of Hispanic culture, will be a major contributor to the demise of the current regime.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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Clarity paired with kindness heals misunderstandings faster than silence.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Feb. 2026
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The San Francisco native has been surrounded by controversy for many years, with global scrutiny and media coverage reaching a fever pitch during her 2022 Olympics debut in Beijing.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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Last year’s festival, the first under Tuttle’s leadership, was largely free of such controversies.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit earlier this month following the Bondi attack sparked protests at major Australian cities, including clashes between pro-Palestinian demonstrators with the police outside Sydney Town Hall.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Hamilton reframed verbal clashes among the Founding Fathers as rap battles.—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2023
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The row was reminiscent of an earlier accusation of antisemitism leveled by Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, against President Emmanuel Macron.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Over the past week, a 30-year-old TikTok personality with a famous actor beau showed up in an awful lot of front rows.—
Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feud. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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