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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A war of words continued for months, the defeated candidates complaining of unfair muckraking.
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Amid an increasingly hostile war of words , Finley has criticized Racicot for reneging on a promise to cooperate with federal authorities.
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But that knowledge has been buried in the war of words which has accompanied mass unemployment.
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In their war of words and figures, both companies have issued comparisons of the two plans, with strikingly different results.
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On June 30, the war of words was intensified by John Trudell.
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Traditionalists fought back in a war of words that continues to this day.
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Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words .