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row over

/ rəʊ /

verb

  1. to win a rowing race unopposed, by rowing the course

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noun

  1. the act of doing this

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Senior officials at the heart of the row over the collapsed China spy trial will appear before a parliamentary committee next week.

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There has been a row over the last few days about whether the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips should stay in her job – after some of those victims involved in setting up the inquiry said she should be replaced.

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In 2024, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn cited the row over the scheme among “self-inflicted wounds” suffered by his party ahead of a heavy general election defeat.

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In France, it reignited a row over the lack of security in France's museums, which the new Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledged Sunday was a "major weak spot".

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He left in 2016, three years after the record-breaking launch of GTA 5, sparking a legal row over unpaid royalties that was settled out of court.

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