verbal confrontation
Frequency: 6.89.2 per million words
a confrontation involving spoken words, often an argument
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Examples (20)
- The meeting ended in a heated verbal confrontation between the two managers.
- The meeting quickly escalated into a verbal confrontation.
- He tries to avoid verbal confrontations at all costs because he dislikes arguing.
- They tried to avoid a direct verbal confrontation by exchanging emails.
- What began as a simple disagreement escalated into a full-blown verbal confrontation.
- His aggressive tone often leads to a verbal confrontation with colleagues.
- The witness recounted the loud verbal confrontation that occurred moments before the incident.
- She preferred a calm discussion over a heated verbal confrontation.
- The siblings had a bitter verbal confrontation over their late father's will.
- A minor disagreement turned into an intense verbal confrontation between the two leaders.
- If you continue to provoke him, you're risking a verbal confrontation.
- The customer service representative managed to de-escalate the verbal confrontation.
- A minor traffic misunderstanding led to an ugly verbal confrontation in the street.
- Having a verbal confrontation in public can be embarrassing.
- After their verbal confrontation, an awkward silence filled the room.
- The debate was less about policy and more about a series of verbal confrontations.
- She is not afraid of verbal confrontation and will always defend her beliefs.
- He's not one to back down from a verbal confrontation.
- The tense atmosphere in the office made a verbal confrontation seem inevitable.
- Despite their differences, they managed to resolve the issue without a major verbal confrontation.