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Recent Examples of catfight
The various marriages, breakups, affairs, catfights, resurrection storylines, canine dream sequences, and Y2K-panic inducements have been a staple on Australian television, until Amazon took the series global by adding it to its Freevee platform.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The film unintentionally became a gay classic thanks to the commitment of Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep (here, Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, both excellent) to its catfight premise in the vein of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
The catfight premise lies in the vein of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: two lifelong frenemies discover the secret to eternal life, and then use it to tear each other literally to bits while fighting over a man.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
The sense of right and wrong The Diplomat told us drives Wyler is less important to maintain than zigzag plotting leading the two women to a cliffhanger catfight.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The film unintentionally became a gay classic thanks to the commitment of Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep (here, Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, both excellent) to its catfight premise in the vein of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
The catfight premise lies in the vein of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: two lifelong frenemies discover the secret to eternal life, and then use it to tear each other literally to bits while fighting over a man.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
The sense of right and wrong The Diplomat told us drives Wyler is less important to maintain than zigzag plotting leading the two women to a cliffhanger catfight.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catfight
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And China’s ascendency in EVs provides a window into future tussles between the world’s top two economies over innovations set to power the Fourth Industrial Revolution.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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In response to Trump’s tussle with China, Apple CEO Tim Cook said earlier this month that most iPhones sold in the U.S. during the March-June period would come from India.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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Here was a man who had never been arrested, who, as far as anyone knew, had never committed a violent act, not even during the most intense marital squabbles.—
Rich Cohen,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
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The intraparty squabbles between moderates and progressives that have dominated the past decade have given way to different fault lines.—
Charlotte Alter,
Time,
19 May 2025
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But as the boy and his friends exited a walkway near the schoolyard a rival not involved in the earlier dustup ran up and punched the shooter in the face.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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The position dustups have also exposed Devers’ first instinct to be inwardly focused.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2025
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Past skirmishes with Pakistan had allowed Modi to construct a triumphalist narrative of strength that played to his domestic audience.—
Vaibhav Vats,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2025
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Fever star Caitlin Clark and Reese got into a skirmish during the game, which sparked boos from the home crowd.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Jaques said officers at 7:49 a.m. on Sunday received a complaint from a woman who reported that someone was following her vehicle while waving a gun following an altercation at a local gas station.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 May 2025
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Initial data provided by the department suggest that practicing the martial art not only helps boost officers' physical and mental health, but also enables cops to use less force during an arrest or altercation.—
Katja Ridderbusch,
NPR,
26 May 2025
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The defense attorney suggested that Cassie’s rape allegation stemmed from a complicated quarrel playing out as their decade-plus relationship came to an end.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Other great powers will have their territorial goals and quarrels and this does not normally concern you.—
Frank Lavin,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Trump tests legal strategies as judges block his policies As the clash becomes a defining moment in the president's second term, conservative activists are pushing Congress to rein in federal judges and pressing Trump to intensify his fight with the courts.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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The clash between Villaraigosa’s environmentalist credentials and oil-industry ties surfaced in the governor’s race after Valero announced in late April that its Bay Area refinery would close next year, not long after Phillips 66 said its Wilmington refinery would close in 2025.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2025
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Use Negative Experiences To Fuel You Swift has had her share of public tiffs with other industry titans.—
Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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This, by contrast, has not always been the image Milan have presented to the world this season — with Rafael Leao and Theo Hernandez’s cooling-break dissent away at Lazio, Fonseca calling out a lack of effort after Red Star, and then Conceicao and Davide Calabria’s tiff after the Parma game.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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“Catfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catfight. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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