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
The announcement comes amid Trump’s ongoing feud with higher education institutions, particularly Ivy League schools.
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Julia Mueller, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
There has been marked economic instability as a result of the feud.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
Tiffany Stratton defended her WWE Women’s Championship against Charlotte in a feud that benefitted from real-life drama.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The roots of the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, unbelievably, go all the way back to the May 13, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live, which Dreyfuss hosted just weeks after winning a Best Actor Oscar for The Goodbye Girl.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
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Julia Mueller, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
There has been marked economic instability as a result of the feud.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
Tiffany Stratton defended her WWE Women’s Championship against Charlotte in a feud that benefitted from real-life drama.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The roots of the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, unbelievably, go all the way back to the May 13, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live, which Dreyfuss hosted just weeks after winning a Best Actor Oscar for The Goodbye Girl.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feud
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Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Congressional Republicans have so far shown little interest in negotiating the dispute between the president and the judiciary.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Apr. 2025
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The quarrel escalated into a fight, and Hernandez was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen, cops said.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
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As the Venetians and the Ottoman Turks squabble over Cyprus in the background, the men before us quarrel over everything—a woman, a job, a handkerchief.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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Panthers center Sam Bennett, who had a contentious altercation with Marchand in Round 2 of the playoffs last year, said Marchand’s first message after being added to the team group chat was a chirp.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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The footage shows an altercation between Perez and a man that officials say lasted for about 15 minutes before officers arrived on the scene.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Yet, this vision is based upon a misunderstanding of the causes and consequences of American industrial decline.—
Made by History,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Teams are now more prone to misunderstanding and conflict than ever before.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Now, with the controversy behind him, Benn has the opportunity to finally face Eubank in the ring.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Despite the controversy, for the Hilton, that doesn't change the imperative to serve.—
Major Garrett,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2025
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This square can spark clashes between the need for stability (Taurus) and the desire for bold self-expression (Leo).—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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With nearly 8 million Venezuelans displaced—the second-largest migration globally and the largest ever within South America—the film captures rising tensions, cultural clashes, and radicalization in Chile’s border communities.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
17 Apr. 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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Seven decades later, this culture of disputation emerged as a central theme in Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness report on the Eastern European revolutions of 1989.—
Susie Linfield,
The New York Review of Books,
11 May 2022
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This is the fourth time in a row that the Clippers played the Nuggets in a playoff game and lost despite leading by double digits.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Crabgrass preventer products must be applied before crabgrass begins to germinate after soil temperatures reach 55 degrees Fahrenheit for several days in a row.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feud. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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