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Recent Examples of argle-bargle However, this raft of procedural changes is at the heart of argle-bargle that way lay projects and choke production. Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 This was the Biden who mumbled argle-bargle at the White House’s Juneteenth celebration. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 29 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for argle-bargle
Noun
  • Sridhar Ramaswamy has a war cabinet of workers and frequently gets into quarrels with staffers over AI ambition.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • He’s been the attorney general for the state the last eight years, regularly an ally of litigation-ready Gov. Roy Cooper in quarrels with the Legislature.
    Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The incident comes roughly three months after workplace dispute led to a shooting at a Texas USPS distribution facility that left one worker dead.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The dispute about the FEMA funds comes as the Trump administration is considering reshaping or abolishing FEMA.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Daylight saving time isn’t going away anytime soon While all but two states in the U.S. continue to observe daylight saving time, there is still disagreement about whether the practice should be eliminated or made permanent.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Under the current system, the council’s discretion to overturn such decisions is limited to when there has been a procedural error — not a disagreement about historic value.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There is also wide agreement that the argument conflicts with more than a century of Supreme Court precedent that protects citizenship for most everyone born on U.S. soil, except for the children of foreign diplomats.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The pushing back of opening arguments by a week was an acknowledgment by the judge that litigating some of those issues could take additional time.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The 18-year-old’s boyfriend was seen in the footage attempting to stop the altercation.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The sole witness to the altercation was the car’s driver, who testified at the trial through an Urdu language translator.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The controversy surrounding Musk's involvement in Social Security stems from his push for deep cuts in government spending while also suggesting Social Security could be targeted.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
  • No controversies, no real debates over it being overrated.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gibson notably was seen just this weekend alongside FBI Director Kash Patel attending a UFC fight in Las Vegas.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • One of the mysteries of the UFC’s 2025 fight calendar has centered around Dustin Poirier’s retirement fight.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Better to follow the West German example and achieve full NATO membership for independent Ukraine than to watch essential U.S. support dwindle as Congress bickers and Trump’s reelection odds increase.
    M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, Esmeralda bickers with her daughter Jacqueline (Tenley Stitzer), who’s terrified of nuclear war and obsessed with rocker David Lee Roth.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024

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“Argle-bargle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argle-bargle. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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