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Even after the 2024 pact, Overdeck and Siegel quarreled over whether either of them breached their contracts or fiduciary duties, a fight that went into arbitration last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

He and journalist Joy Reid publicly quarreled following her exit last year from MSNBC.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

“We’ve fought and quarreled for years but we’re great friends,” Hayes told the Ohio State student paper in 1986.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Some San Cristóbal residents have even quarreled with Spanish-language professors and authorities at the Canarian Language Academy who contend that this way of speaking equates to nothing more than a linguistic game.

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023

Whenever he found two men who had quarreled and were not speaking to each other, he told them, “Stop and forget it,” and made them shake hands.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong