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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bicker.

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Examples

  • LOGAN MCQUEARY, GABRIEL ` S FATHER: We ` ve always had -- you know, kind of bickered and fighting a little bit.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010 2010

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We ` ve always had -- you know, kind of bickered and fighting a little bit, arguing here, arguing there.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010 2010

  • Efforts to amend the Constitution to allow prayer in school foundered as supporters bickered over what kind of prayer should be allowed and over provisions for students to opt out.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • While the French and the Italians have bickered over the free flow of Libyan refugees between them, the Danes have moved to reinstall controls and met only minimal resistance from their partners.

    Globalisation: Spinning into reverse | Editorial 2011

  • There, 150 years ago this month, 132 delegates from 21 states bickered, bargained and tried in vain to bridge the chasm that widened beneath them even as they met.

    The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged Michael E. Ruane 2011

  • Last week, while U.S. lawmakers bickered, a sweeping trade pact between South Korea and the European Union took effect; one between Colombia and Canada takes force in August.

    Jobs Study Is Too Late for Debate on Trade Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • There, 150 years ago this month, 132 delegates from 21 states bickered, bargained and tried in vain to bridge the chasm that widened beneath them even as they met.

    The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged Michael E. Ruane 2011

  • While the French and the Italians have bickered over the free flow of Libyan refugees between them, the Danes have moved to reinstall controls and met only minimal resistance from their partners.

    Globalisation: Spinning into reverse | Editorial 2011

  • There, 150 years ago this month, 132 delegates from 21 states bickered, bargained and tried in vain to bridge the chasm that widened beneath them even as they met.

    The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged Michael E. Ruane 2011

  • There, 150 years ago this month, 132 delegates from 21 states bickered, bargained and tried in vain to bridge the chasm that widened beneath them even as they met.

    The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged Michael E. Ruane 2011

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