as in quarrel
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
got into a little tiff about what color sheets to buy for their bed
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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
like any couple, they occasionally tiff, but it's never anything serious
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Recent Examples of tiff
Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Brace yourself for delays, reschedules, and miscommunications on your plate, as both travel and communication are affected by Luna and Mercury’s astrological tiff.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
This led to a tiff between Sam and Sierra in terms of if Andy should go next.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
And Machado, in a tiff with Dodger starter Jake Flaherty, tossed a ball at the screen below the railing that protects the Dodger dugout.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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Americans are going into debt in order to visit Disneyworld; a guy is suing on behalf of his nut-allergic wife who died after eating at a restaurant there; there’s a tiff with Ron DeSantis over Disney’s criticism of a state law that restricted the teaching of sexuality in schools.
—Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Brace yourself for delays, reschedules, and miscommunications on your plate, as both travel and communication are affected by Luna and Mercury’s astrological tiff.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
This led to a tiff between Sam and Sierra in terms of if Andy should go next.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
And Machado, in a tiff with Dodger starter Jake Flaherty, tossed a ball at the screen below the railing that protects the Dodger dugout.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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That’s the main quarrel of opponents of such conservation projects.Christine Ro, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Experts at the conference floated the possibility that the aquatic quarrel could make its way to the Supreme Court, though that’s viewed as a crisis that should be averted.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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The sellers are Lydia (Lisa Kudrow) and Paul (Ray Romano), bickering empty nesters saddled with financial woes and a dark secret.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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From clicking pens to tapping on the side of the table with their feet to bickering with each other, being a dad is one long challenging lesson in patience.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Jamie Foxx is thanking fans for their support after an altercation at his birthday dinner this weekend required him to get stitches.Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Things got worse for Curtis, who was arrested and charged with assault because of his altercation with assistant DA Daniels.Barry Levitt, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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Research has distinguished between three simple strategies to deal with neighbor disputes: avoidance of the party whose behavior is experienced as unneighborly; confronting the neighbor face-to-face; and relying on a third party to sort out the issue, e.g. the landlord or even police.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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Nearly a decade later, a dark storm cloud has descended upon his increasingly unpopular administration, with the resignation of a top Cabinet minister over a dispute about how to manage US president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Yet the film won’t fight its way out of the red for Paramount, which spent more than $250 million to return to the arena.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Dec. 2024
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But this close brush with death symbolized both Trump's amazing comeback from the debacle of the 2020 election and its aftermath and the fighting spirit that led to an Electoral College and popular vote victory in November 2024.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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Welcome to the heated and ongoing controversy about this weighty matter.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The controversy began after negotiations over the 2025 agreements failed, prompting the teams to file their legal dispute on October 2, 2024, in the Western District of North Carolina.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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Labor advocates argue that the level of control Amazon exerts over these workers' conditions more closely resembles an employer-employee relationship.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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One label executive argued that Fanning and Parker belonged in jail, but there was no uniform response.Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Tiff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiff. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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