Definition of "squabbles" [squabbles]

• Plural form of squabble. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of squabble. (verb)

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• "Even if it were true, do not natural-born (and naturalized) Americans engage in squabbles, reject “democratic values,” speak in foreign languages and engage in terrorism?"
• "To do that, they will have to direct at least some of their attention away from short term squabbles tailored to an increasingly frenetic media cycle, in order to create a vision of the great challenges the next generation is destined to face."
• "Ireland is currently suffered the foul taste of one global economic crisis, which may still have some considerable way to go … He concludes that Ireland's elected leaders must directly "their attention away from short term squabbles tailored to an increasingly frenetic media cycle" in order to face squarely the great challenges that lie before the next generation."