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
But since the feud began, Pentagon officials have said Elon Musk's xAI and OpenAI's ChatGPT have now been cleared for use in classified systems.
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
Emil Michael, the department’s under secretary for research and engineering as well as its chief technology officer, detailed the events leading up to the public feud in a Friday episode of the All-In podcast.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
This passive-aggressive feud continues to feature smoldering embers.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2026
Brooks has had an on-court feud with LeBron James dating back to the 2023 playoffs.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
Emil Michael, the department’s under secretary for research and engineering as well as its chief technology officer, detailed the events leading up to the public feud in a Friday episode of the All-In podcast.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
This passive-aggressive feud continues to feature smoldering embers.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2026
Brooks has had an on-court feud with LeBron James dating back to the 2023 playoffs.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feud
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Anderson has countersued and accused Burkle of smearing his reputation amid a separate business dispute.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Burkle alleges that Anderson stopped paying him in 2014 after becoming angry with him over an unspecified personal dispute, the complaint states.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Two men were hospitalized early Sunday after a quarrel turned into a shootout on the 79th Street Red Line platform along the Dan Ryan Expressway.—
Dylan Olsen,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Herro posted a photo of that autographed Durant jersey on his Instagram on Sunday, acknowledging his respect for Durant hours after Saturday’s quarrel.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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During the altercation, police say one fatal shot was fired into the victim's stomach.—
Eric Mack,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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Then, Smith and the Jets’ relationship soured for good when Smith suffered a broken jaw in a locker room altercation with teammate IK Enemkpali in August of 2015.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2026
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However your connections look, a small promise about time or attention can reset trust after a recent misunderstanding.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
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Much of the criticism for the funding plan stems from a misunderstanding, said Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle.—
Nuria Martinez-Keel,
Oklahoma Voice,
6 Mar. 2026
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Khimberly’s death brings additional scrutiny to LAUSD at a time when the district is already entangled in other controversies.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Regardless of the controversy, related technologies are rapidly entering industrial deployment.—
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CNBC,
11 Mar. 2026
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On Friday night, three people were taken into custody amid a clash between pro-Iranian regime demonstrators, who erected a shrine to the slain Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, and anti-Khamenei protesters at Washington Square Park.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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The recent developments evoke the clash of civilizations theory developed by Samuel Huntington in the 1990s.—
Debidatta A. Mahapatra,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 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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Jarred Vanderbilt leaped into the laps of front-row fans.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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The cliffside lodge offers a front row view of one of the most biologically rich places on the planet, UNESCO’s Vhembe Biosphere Reserve near South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feud. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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