Example Sentences

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Before Sam Altman was ousted from OpenAI last week, he and the company’s board of directors had been bickering for more than a year.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2023

For years, local politicians had been bickering about constructing a new bridge.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Graham Piper said the two jockeys had been "bickering" but he had not seen evidence of bullying by any riders.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021

The pessimistic meta-induction and the no-miracles argument formed a kind of stalemate, and philosophers had been bickering about it ever since.

From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2014

They had been bickering a lot lately, but wasn’t that just stress over moving, selling the house, and trying to find something in Los Angeles they could afford?

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin