dogfight

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

Old-fashioned biplanes hung on strings from the ceiling, tilted at crazy angles like they were in the middle of a dogfight.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

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

He fulfilled his obligations to the Humane Society by speaking out against dogfighting and owning the mistakes he made.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021

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