Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for altercate
Verb
  • Force an impatient couple to bicker in Route 23 traffic.
    Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Somehow McKay keeps the movie spinning even after Dale and Brennan stop bickering and start sticking together: Adam Scott, as Brennan’s snobby, overachieving brother, makes a terrific common enemy.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Current Social Science Research Approaches Are Limited For decades, Lahlou argues, the social sciences and their applications in fields as diverse as marketing and industrial psychology have focused primarily on individual psychology and interpersonal dynamics.
    Benjamin Voyer, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Some Democrats, including potential 2028 presidential contenders Rahm Emanuel and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, argue that the party needs to moderate or focus less on such issues.
    Alex Thompson, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • And contrary to popular belief, siblings spaced more closely actually tend to fight more, not less.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • After the Woodley fight was canceled, Edwards wanted to fight Jorge Masvidal, someone ranked ahead of him or for the UFC welterweight crown.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The women encourage their children to quarrel and fight, and teach them how it is done by actual combats with their neighbors.
    Robert Loerzel, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Now isn’t the time to quarrel with the coach, so, purely for context: Atkinson was an assistant on the last Golden State Warriors team to win a title in 2022, but Poole did not start next to Curry.
    Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Berner and Kyle Cooke immediately clash over his de facto leadership of the house.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Tensions quickly run high when the families’ disparate personalities clash.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2016
  • The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 15 May 2024
Verb
  • Some 41 years later, no one has yet to dispute Boswell’s premise.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That has been disputed by experts in South Africa, who say there is no evidence of whites being targeted, although farmers of all races are victims of violent home invasions in a country that suffers from a very high crime rate.
    Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Everything explodes during a solstice dinner, when Shauna spits in Mari’s venison stew, which leads to the two girls brawling right there at the dinner table.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Cut to the two men brawling in the bowels of a derelict ship in the Miami port, where Spencer has imprisoned and ultimately attempts to drown his son to evade capture.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Altercate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altercate. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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