battle royal

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“It will be a battle royal for GLP-1 pill leadership between Novo and Lilly,” Leerink Partners analyst David Risinger said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Naomi Alderman’s new dystopia, ‘The Future,’ finds a new way into the genre she mastered in ‘The Power’: a battle royal of preppers, tech billionaires and cults.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

What he said is a reminder that legal skirmishes over the particulars of an execution are different from a battle royal over the moral heart of America.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2024

Variety branded Bullet Train a "wildly complicated" and "gleefully overloaded, high-speed battle royal".

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2022

And in a corner, my brief case, covered with specks of dust like memories—the night of the battle royal.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison