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settle a/the score

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• In the late 1990s, two teams of astronomers were out to settle a score.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
• Afterward, there was a call for a third fight between the two to settle the score.
  — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• Gangs taunt one another on YouTube and settle the score with bloodshed.
  — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Jarstfer was glad that Siegert eventually had a chance to settle the score with his foot, and not his arm.
  — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2022
• But most fans would rather settle the score in regulation time.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
• To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian, a fighter with nothing to lose.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
• To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian – a fighter who has nothing to lose.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter who has nothing to lose.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2023
• When all her legal options fail, Orah resorts to violence to settle the score.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• The motives can be to grab land, to ostracize a woman to settle a score, or to justify violence.
  — Suhasini Raj, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Sometimes the best movies often are the ones where the protagonist is seemingly defeated, gets a second lease on life, and returns in the final act to settle the score.
  — Jordan Rose, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
• Paxton's defense sought to prove his impeachment was just an attempt to settle a score by political opponents in the state House and his own former aides.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Ortega returned hours later to settle the score by robbing his assailant, only to be quickly arrested.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Jan 2025