as in bickering
to express different opinions about something often angrily
the couple rows all the time, and yet they seem happy together
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Recent Examples of rowing
Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
A couple in the back are rowing the other way.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
Of course, this malady could be overcome by ordering a DSG automatic GLI, but then any fun gleaned by rowing your gears is also lost.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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Early risers might have seen crews of young people rowing boats and beating drums on Vasona Lake in Los Gatos, where one of the few South Bay dragon boat teams was practicing for an upcoming international race.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
A couple in the back are rowing the other way.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
Of course, this malady could be overcome by ordering a DSG automatic GLI, but then any fun gleaned by rowing your gears is also lost.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Rowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowing. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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