crossed swords
Example Sentences
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He has crossed swords over Lululemon’s ill-fated acquisition of at-home fitness startup Mirror, which it purchased for $500 million in 2020, and stopped selling three years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
But Mr. Dennett, who never shirked controversy, often crossed swords with other famed scholars and thinkers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Still towering over the Tigris River, for example, are the Victory Arch, an arch formed by two giant hands holding crossed swords, and two large turquoise half-domes called the al-Shaheed Monument, or Martyrs’ Monument.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
The two countries have in the past crossed swords over the conversion of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022
Percy hadn’t crossed swords with an opponent like this since...well, since he’d battled the war god Ares.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
