Thesaurus results for QUARRELER

quarreler

noun

variants or quarreller

Definition of quarreler

as in defendant

a person who takes part in a dispute known as the quarreler in the family, she never dropped an argument, no matter how pointless

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Noun

Castillo is suing Torchy's Tacos and Success Foods Management Group, which does business as Torchy's Tacos, alleging that the defendants failed to properly prepare, inspect and distribute the food before selling it to customers.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
The lawsuit names RentCafe and its partner, Yardi Systems, as defendants, along with the Pennrose Management Company, which owns and manages hundreds of low-income rental units in the city.

— Renee Anderson, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of defendant

Noun

Democracy Forward, which is representing the plaintiffs challenging his renovation plans, responded by saying that the course is part of a national park and recreation facility that is meant for everyone to enjoy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
The plaintiffs, represented by the law firms Poolson Oden and Grant & Eisenhofer, alleged that Union Pacific failed to provide adequate protective equipment or warn employees about hazardous exposures.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of plaintiff

Noun

The report also raises the possibility that foreign fighters currently in Syria, including Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Tajiks and other nationalities, could be transferred to Yemen.

— Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
The plane's crew consisted of a fighter pilot and a weapons systems officer from the French Air and Space Force.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of fighter

Noun

At the time, Kundassery was a high-school debater in Fremont, California, where his parents had moved after emigrating from India on H1-B visas.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
The accomplishments of athletes are every bit as impressive and legitimate as those of dancers, debaters, and oboists.

— Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of debater

Noun

The Jay Treaty asked the disputants merely to start a process leading to the appointment of arbitrators qualified to decide their disputes fairly and finally.

— Tom Bell, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
The audience and actor are like disputants kept in different rooms, forbidden to see each other fully.

— Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

Definition of disputant

Noun

Across its 35-season tenure, Dancing With the Stars has only had one All-Star season full of returning contestants.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
This year, correspondent Luke Burbank attended the 65th annual competition, in which contestants were of a particularly slimy variety.

— David Morgan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of contestant

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