as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
tedious departmental meetings at which staffers would argufy endlessly
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The 39-year-old victim and her boyfriend, identified by sources as 34-year-old Daquan Spence, bickered over smokes in their apartment on 155th St. near Baisley Blvd.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
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Without politics to bicker over or political visions to debate, the candidates mostly pitched themselves and their personal connections to the community.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: Democrats have hammered Trump and Elon Musk for their approach to slicing federal agencies, arguing the administration has cut positions and programs without a clear understanding of the consequences.—
Stephen Neukam,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, some analysts remain bullish — for example, ARK Invest famously projects massive long-term upside for Tesla, and Wedbush’s Dan Ives argues that autonomous tech is the holy grail that will eventually vindicate Tesla’s valuation.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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If the Cold War’s central ideological struggle of communism versus capitalism was between states, this new ideological struggle of illiberal nationalism versus liberal internationalism is being fought primarily within states.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Sympathy for Israelis has dropped in the past few years, as Israel has been led by a hardline right-wing government and, since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, fought a war against the terror group in Gaza with high numbers of casualties.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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Conversely, Jim cautioned against buying any restaurant stocks right now because the group has fallen out of favor.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
10 Mar. 2025
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But on one subject, the whole dozen fell out of the cart and smashed on the floor.—
arkansasonline.com,
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10 Mar. 2025
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Berner and Kyle Cooke immediately clash over his de facto leadership of the house.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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More automotive news: Auto industry's long product cycles clash hard with Trump's tariff timelines VW ruled out a last-minute dash to move Skoda and SEAT/CUPRA cars over the Mexican border.—
Victoria Waldersee,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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“Argufy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argufy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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