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What is a contretemps?

What is a contretemps? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event; a hitch
  2. (fencing) An ill-timed pass.
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Then you find yourself in the midst of a minor contretemps, and everyone gets more readers.
We witnessed the contretemps that occurred on the split-run magazine issue when the Americans threatened to retaliate on steel.
It's hard to ignore the interoffice elements of the contretemps.
The contretemps escalated during a commercial break when Khrushchev was handed a note by one of his advisers.
Meanwhile, the largest contretemps of the campaign season erupted between two studios that are not even in the race for best picture.
What provoked the series of events that led to her going away, many months earlier, was a dinner-table contretemps in the Partridge household.

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