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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There was a brief altercation and someone called the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And perhaps most interestingly, can MacLean stay away from the physical altercations that have popped up recently?
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He was engaged in some sort of altercation with the driver.
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She would run and hide as her parents' altercations so often got out of hand with plates crashing and books thrown.
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The altercation concluded with Bugel tossing Brown from the session.
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The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sided altercation .
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Well, the only altercation I remember having with him was when I was very little, five or six.