as in fighter
a person who takes part in a dispute
every couple has marital problems, but those two are heavyweight brawlers in a seriously dysfunctional relationship
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Even for many residents of Gaza, however, the swift re-emergence of the fighters, some in official uniforms, was a surprise.—
Iyad Abuheweila,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025 -
These early dinosaurs were also initially vastly outnumbered by their reptile cousins–a group of enormous crocodile ancestors called the pseudosuchians and pterosaurs who grew to the size of fighter jets.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
23 Jan. 2025
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Sentencing guidelines for most misdemeanors in Idaho give judges latitude to fine defendants up to $1,000, but also impose no financial penalty at all.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Jan. 2025
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Some defendants who lost their homes or were forced to flee infernos faced the threat of arrest for missing court, attorneys said.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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The video also is mentioned in a court filing from the firm Monday, asking a court to order SCE to preserve certain physical evidence the plaintiff alleges may show the cause of the sparking.—
Michelle Watson,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and a group of 17 plaintiffs challenged the law on behalf of themselves, booksellers, patrons of bookstores, bookseller associations and author associations.—
Ron Wood,
arkansasonline.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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That scrapper, his out-of-season t-shirt, the playground and the flashed Playboy...—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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Every Volunteers outing has been a blowout, save for their one-point scrapper over Illinois.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
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In this and other such statements, the United States projects an aura of neutrality -- even suggesting, on occasion, that the country could serve as a good-faith mediator between disputants.—
Michael T. Klare,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Feb. 2013
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My disputant’s particular problem wasn’t with Carpenter’s voice but with its anodyne middle-of-the-road context (both musically and culturally).—
Wesley Stace,
WSJ,
20 Dec. 2018
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