as in dispute
a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups
The workers' feud with management concerns health benefits and pay increases. Because of a family feud, they did not see each other for a decade.
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Recent Examples of feud
Belichick has had an ongoing feud with Kraft since leaving the team in 2024.
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Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The underlying feud dates back to November 2021, when Relli accused Rocky of firing a gun at him during a heated confrontation in Hollywood.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Before his departure for filming, Rhodes was in a heated feud with Drew McIntyre.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
King Charles is said to be caught between his two sons in a painful, ongoing family feud.
—Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The underlying feud dates back to November 2021, when Relli accused Rocky of firing a gun at him during a heated confrontation in Hollywood.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Before his departure for filming, Rhodes was in a heated feud with Drew McIntyre.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
King Charles is said to be caught between his two sons in a painful, ongoing family feud.
—Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feud
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The dispute was heard by an arbitrator (and not a judge) because, per SPAC language and accompanying NBPA regulations, player-agent disputes are subject to arbitration.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The dishwasher was made in America, though there is some dispute over who did it.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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While unconfirmed, we’re told that the film sees Louise, the alcoholic mother of Mike (Hechinger) and Tommy, take off after a quarrel with her husband Lester — walking with her dog to the home of her brother Frank, quite a few miles away.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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The quarrel continued to escalate, spurring Ates to send the man his location.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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The Buffalo Bills ejected the fan who got into an altercation with Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson during Sunday night’s game at Highmark Stadium.—
Jenna West,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The altercation happened with about eight minutes remaining in the third quarter of the game.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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Outside the courtroom, his parents told KOMO the situation is a misunderstanding.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Usually there’s some history of misunderstandings, hurt feelings or real transgressions.—
Ingrid Schmidt,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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But Brown became entangled in a controversy of her own this spring when she was indicted alongside her two adult daughters on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud used to falsely obtain pandemic relief loans.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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While some among Democrats cast him as the party’s national leader and a natural choice for their 2028 nominee, conservative critics point to his past controversies, including other pay-for-play stories.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Sep. 2025
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Those clashes became viral videos that cemented his reputation as a culture warrior.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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On November 25, the La Liga holders travel to Stamford Bridge for a mouthwatering clash with the reigning Club World Cup kings.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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According to him, advances in machine learning have yanked questions once trapped inside theological/philosophical disputations into corporate board packs.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2023
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Zarutska, a refugee from Ukraine, had picked an empty row, and sat in front of a man in a red sweatshirt, unaware of the two’s imminent collision course.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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The trio of authors — thriller novelist Andrea Bartz and nonfiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson — who sued last year also sat in the front row of the court gallery, but didn’t address Alsup.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feud. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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