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Description: and you put the arrowheads down in front of him, hoping that he'll get the idea that you want to trade your arrowheads for finished arrows. But he looks at the pile of arrowheads, thinks they're a gift, picks them up, smiles and walks off. Now you pursue this guy, gesticulating. A scuffle ensues and you get stabbed

Tristram Stuart

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

English Author

Lydia Millet

Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy.

American Novelist

Damian Lillard

Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.

American Athlete

Deadmau5

I get anxiety from a noise or some scuffling at the side of the stage. I hear stories all the time, from as minor as Dillon Francis getting smacked in the head with a flying beer can to Dimebag Darrell.

Canadian Musician

Philip Rivers

It's kind of fun to be in a little scuffle.

Use 'scuffle' to describe brief, minor conflicts, more physical than verbal.

Minor Conflict

'Scuffle' usually implies some physical struggle but without serious harm.

Often Physical

A scuffle is often spontaneous and not planned, arising suddenly in the heat of the moment.

Spontaneous Situation

When used as a verb, 'scuffle' suggests a disorganized or inelegant physical struggle.

Clumsy Struggle

'Scuffle' as a verb indicates a skirmish that's not as formal as a duel or match.

Not a Formal Fight

'Scuffle' can refer to the sound of feet, suggesting a soft or stealthy movement.

Shuffling Sound

Use 'scuffle' to describe a sound that cues a character's movement in storytelling.

Movement Cue

 and you put the arrowheads down in front of him, hoping that he'll get the idea that you want to trade your arrowheads for finished arrows. But he looks at the pile of arrowheads, thinks they're a gift, picks them up, smiles and walks off. Now you pursue this guy, gesticulating. A scuffle ensues and you get stabbed

Mark Pagel: How language...

 they would fight especially when it comes to around mating time or even around a carcass they might but when I say fight it's more of a scuffle they hardly hurt each other unless there is a major I suppose they have big differences there is really no need to

Safari Live - Day 360 PIPE...

 in which these characters battled for the control of the soul. Audiences loved the immoral characters, and spectators were encouraged to interact with the actors. Throwing rotten food and even getting into scuffles with other spectators became very common.

The emergence of drama...

 need our doses him but since that's little scuffle between him Tenggara haven't seen ting ghana and it was also the last time I saw a trial umba she was well the first one in that sighting and didn't seem to be too affected by it all but having said that

Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...

 to offset the scuffling buffalo? Consider the can-can. Can-can can-can can can can can can-can. Here, the word can comes in many guises. There's can-can, the flamboyant dance, can, that means able to,

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 do a bit of research and do exactly what kind of convention is going on here while you go to a buffalo convention oh dear what's going on there how very interesting possibly a little scuffle

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 these quick learning primates know where to find our food and how to get it they'll rate crop fields homes and park cars the scuffle and confusion can have dire

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 quickly turns into a howling scuffle anyone who studies Tazz ease up close risks painful run-ins with muscular jaws that work like a snapping sling so

Bite of the Tasmanian...

 comes the accidental meeting of two alpha males both rats survived the scuffle which might mean another 30,000 rats by next year holy Road

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 scuffle which might mean another 30,000 rats by next year holy Road

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