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dogfight

[dawg-fahyt, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌfaɪt, ˈdɒg- /




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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

Dyche's successor will take charge of a side mired in another dogfight at the wrong end of the table in 16th place, just one point above the bottom three.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2025

But using her hands as planes, Lilya was able to describe the maneuvering of their aerial dogfight blow by blow, and the German pilot had to admit that this novice fighter had defeated him.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

A young James Whale directed the talkie sequences while Hughes helmed and designed the dogfighting sequences.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2020

These dogs are reminders that even now, 12 years later, survivors of former NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation live on in pockets throughout the country, including here at Best Friends Animal Society’s 3,700-acre sanctuary.

From Washington Post Sep. 18, 2019

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

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




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