skirmish

But if the first go-rounds last year were tragedy—depressing stocks, spiking prices, and rending hearts in both countries—the latest skirmish is starting to look more like farce.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

“I fortunately escaped without a wound, though the right wing where I stood was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire,” he wrote after a 1754 skirmish with the French.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The legal skirmish cast a cloud over Shell’s tenure helping lead the company because the Ellisons wanted to stay focused on running Paramount and their Warner Bros. takeover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

You may wonder why this teeny social media skirmish is worth examining.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Jesper hadn’t been able to miss Kaz’s little skirmish with the Kaelish.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Thanks to skirmishes with Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup, Pollock has pantomime villain status in the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Unitree humanoids are among the world's most recognisable, having wowed audiences with fluid martial arts dances and robot-on-robot kickboxing skirmishes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Similar skirmishes have periodically interrupted fragile diplomatic efforts to end the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The book ends with a few skirmishes during the Reagan administration, including when U.S.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Rather than simply lash back at her, he realized that he needed to work to gain her trust, and, after some initial skirmishes, that was what he did.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

He skirmished with health department officials and at times the White House, where some came to regard him as a rogue agent, the Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Hezbollah and Israel have skirmished along the tense Lebanon-Israel border.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Riordan understood what our erstwhile owners did not: We had all skirmished in the arena, but there was no reason we couldn’t celebrate the important role of an independent media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

Both empires had ambitions to expand their influence, and they regularly skirmished with one another and attempted to meddle in each other’s politics, including by supporting rival claimants to the throne.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Instead, the two sides skirmished along the border, as Syngman Rhee and Kim Il-Sung traded insults and accusations of aggression.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Prices at the pump marched higher for much of the spring as skirmishing off and on in Iran kept the Strait of Hormuz mostly closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Amid the legal skirmishing, news of the indictment was a relief to the victim jewelers, at least eight of whom are based in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

The Iran-backed organization has been skirmishing with Israeli forces.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Black does well in the early skirmishing in this Four Knights Game, but fails to respond adequately when Kupchik opens up the play in the center.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

There would still be weeks of skirmishing ahead with small groups of enemies still in the hills and jungle, but the battle for Guam was won.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac