Thesaurus results for FEUDS

feuds

noun

plural of feud

as in quarrels

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 feuds Smith's public feuds with major NBA stars only serve to advance the notion that Smith is worth responding to. —

Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026 While the parties are busy battling each other through gerrymandering and social media feuds, Americans are losing their patience. —

Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026 Henry Kissinger used that argument to explain why academic feuds are so bitter. —

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 With the industry elite divided by ongoing legal feuds and conflicting political ideologies, the personalities of the individual CEOs look set to shape the course of AI as much as the technology itself. —

Will Barker, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026 But sometimes there are feuds between people who don’t even move in the same circles, and those are a little harder to understand. —

Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026 Beef’s second season leaves behind the parking lot feuds, instead focusing on two couples, one millennial (Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan) and one Gen Z (Melton and Cailee Spaeny), working at a California country club. —

Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 19 Apr. 2026 In the 2003-04 season, the Dallas Stars nearly had a locker room meltdown because of feuds between players’ wives. —

Mac Engel april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026 The best wartime political leaders attempt to minimize internal friction and feuds. —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026

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Noun

In a 2024 study, researchers found that chimpanzee mothers tended to step in to defend their children in quarrels—say, over food or space in a tree—in about half of cases the researchers observed in the wild.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
As the trio quarrels, bonds and ventures through the wild unknown, Felix discovers that true bravery may change not only his own destiny, but also the future of his home.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 May 2026