falling-out
noun
fall·ing-out
ˌfȯ-liŋ-ˈau̇t 
plural fallings-out or falling-outs
: an instance of falling out : quarrel
had a falling-out with his parents
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Examples of falling-out in a Sentence
the two friends have been lonely and miserable since they had a falling-out
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Hodge said that in August 2013, amid a falling-out, Oellrich took a piece of paper with her Facebook address on it and turned it in to prison officials, claiming that Hodge had slipped it into his lunchbox.
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Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
The two men had a falling-out after Rocky promised to pay for a funeral and Ephron lambasted him for not coming through.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
An unnamed co-conspirator has not been charged or named in documents, but all details listed about the individual line up neatly with what is publicly known about Mario Juarez, a local politico who had a violent falling-out with the Duongs not long before the FBI probe first came to light.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
According to Hilton, their public falling-out was less about any personal issues between them and more about the pervasive nature of early 2000s tabloid culture.
—Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
The two men had a falling-out after Rocky promised to pay for a funeral and Ephron lambasted him for not coming through.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
An unnamed co-conspirator has not been charged or named in documents, but all details listed about the individual line up neatly with what is publicly known about Mario Juarez, a local politico who had a violent falling-out with the Duongs not long before the FBI probe first came to light.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
According to Hilton, their public falling-out was less about any personal issues between them and more about the pervasive nature of early 2000s tabloid culture.
—Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Falling-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/falling-out. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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