dogfight
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Mexico and Brazil are in a caramelo dogfight.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Last weekend Osasuna winger Munoz impressed as his team won away for the first time all season, for back-to-back wins to take them away from the relegation dogfight.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Medals of honor tend to require eyewitnesses, though Mr. Issa notes that Soviet records testify to the dogfight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
It is easier to play high tempo, ambitious rugby on a summer tour and against southern hemisphere opposition than in the depths of a Six Nations dogfight.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
I recently witnessed a fierce dogfight between German and English pilots.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Running at MIT on a $120,000 computer the size of a Buick, Russell’s “Spacewar” was a two-player game centered on dogfighting space rockets in flight around a sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The Pentagon calls it “synchronized proximity maneuvers,” which is what happens when military bureaucrats try to describe dogfighting in space without using the word “dogfighting.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2025
Gen. Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel also issued statements condemning dogfighting and lauding the conviction of Johnson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Dogs rescued from dogfighting are often welcomed by sanctuaries around the country.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Before they’d even had a chance to return to the airfield, Lilya saw that Raisa Belyaeva was dogfighting with a Luftwaffe fighter plane.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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At every stage, you are jostled along by reports of your ongoing accomplishments—thirty thousand steps taken, fifty alien words collected, ten pirate ships dogfought.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2016