hard feelings
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The ensuing hard feelings led to five months of negotiations over stablecoin rewards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I have no hard feelings about the price she is selling them for, but I found it odd that she felt the need to tell me about it.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
As if to prove there were no hard feelings, Mr. Scorsese cast Mr. Reiner as the dad of Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
She says she has "absolutely no hard feelings" towards the donor but says it was unacceptable she was given sperm that "wasn't clean, that wasn't safe, that carried a risk".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
“You know you could quit anytime and there wouldn’t be any hard feelings between us.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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