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Recent Examples of catfight
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.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
Huge flat-screens split the difference, airing ESPN and Bravo side by side, with football tackles and catfights vying for diners’ attention.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
Shelly is more socially astute than Donald, and gets into a gnarly catfight with her hubby’s much younger, social-media-climbing personal assistant/girlfriend V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman), who loves flouting how smitten Sterling is with her.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
Jack Hill uses this location to stage one of the great catfights in exploitation film history.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
Huge flat-screens split the difference, airing ESPN and Bravo side by side, with football tackles and catfights vying for diners’ attention.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
Shelly is more socially astute than Donald, and gets into a gnarly catfight with her hubby’s much younger, social-media-climbing personal assistant/girlfriend V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman), who loves flouting how smitten Sterling is with her.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
Jack Hill uses this location to stage one of the great catfights in exploitation film history.
—Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catfight
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Here’s more of our news coverage and opinion pieces on the tariff tussle: Trump’s tariffs reshaped manufacturing in Asia.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Columbia’s former interim president, Katrina Armstrong, resigned Friday amid a tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
30 Mar. 2025
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Three Texas teens are behind bars for what police say was an attempt to murder their mother following a household squabble over internet permissions.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
30 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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In a world gone mad, at least one constant remains: People in positions of power are still absolutely losing their minds over petty social media dustups, reacting in ways that just make everything worse.—
Nate Anderson,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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With that, what might have been a small dustup turned into a full-on war that reached far beyond Wheaton’s students and alumni.—
Emma Green,
The New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2025
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The clashes are a sign of growing tensions at the Lebanon-Syria border, northeast of the Beqaa valley, where predominantly Shiite Lebanese villages have seen skirmishes with Syrian soldiers in recent weeks.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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After his skirmish with Diarra, Neal waved his arms to fire up Creighton fans in the sellout crowd.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
15 Mar. 2025
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The two then had an altercation, during which one of the children was knocked over and Villalobos fled, according to authorities.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Although officially estranged, the couple were still living together with their three sons under the age of 11 at the time of the July 16, 2023, altercation outside their house.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
26 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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The basketball star has a reputation for being able to silence media noise in the most crucial moments, but the family element of this quarrel seems to have hit a little too close to home this time.—
Christian Orozco,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Since then, while tallies have fluctuated, the average has been around 180 clashes per day, an increase of about 30%.—
Andrew Carey and Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the public clash between Musk and Navarro as an example of the administration's transparency.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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The legendary director appeared as himself in the third episode of the Apple TV+ series, which arrived on April 2, and got into a hilarious tiff with Rogen's character, studio head Matt Remick, over a critique of his upcoming film, which starred Anthony Mackie and Dave Franco.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Marina’s subsequent discontent snowballs into not one but two tiffs with Jason after the guests arrive.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Catfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catfight. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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