duel

It was, indeed, a duel between Yamamoto and Sale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sinner and Alcaraz produced a clean sweep of the Grand Slam titles in 2024 and 2025, winning four majors apiece in a duopoly which has morphed into a generational duel.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

At that point in his duel with AlphaGo, Sedol thought of his opponent as merely a machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Why did book lovers stop just short of challenging Kondo to a duel over something she didn’t actually say?

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Yet an image came vividly to his mind: Nehemia handing Celaena her staff at the duel.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Egyptians in antiquity engaged in sword combat for warfare, but also for competition — Romans utilized swords in gladiator events, rituals and duels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Overall, Guehi won all three of his tackles - more than any other player on the pitch - while also managing a 94.9% pass completion from 59 attempts and winning eight of his 11 duels.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Striker Barry, 23, won more aerial duels than any other player in his first Premier League campaign but was inconsistent in front of goal.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

One piece of the mudslinging was the Coffin Handbill, a famous campaign poster published by Adams supporters that showed rows of coffins and listed Jackson’s “bloody deeds”—his duels, the deaths of militiamen under his command.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

They had already dueled on the clay of Roland-Garros and the grass of Wimbledon this season, taking one final apiece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2025

One race that will have some new blood this year, after the same pair of candidates dueled in three previous elections, is California’s 27th Congressional District in northern Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

Lance Lynn dueled 2021 Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes, who retired 10 in a row, including six on strikeouts, although neither figured in the decision.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

You could choose to showcase different sorts of stories with a more positive attitude and still be a hit; see Oprah Winfrey, whose talk show Springer’s dueled with in the ratings.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

The two dueled for the first half of the game, but Bobby clearly had the advantage after that and he won on the thirty-ninth move.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But Valérien Ismaël, Barnsley’s head coach, has previously duelled with Tuchel on the touchline in the Bundesliga, when his Wolfsburg side lost 3-0 to Borussia Dortmund.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2021

Fowler, also 25, is an old adversary of McIlroy's from amateur days when they duelled in the 2007 Walker Cup at Royal County Down.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2014

Open ended with Mickelson once again having to settle for being second after he and fellow American Payne Stewart had duelled for the title during a cool and rainy final round.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2014

Above, planes, that in 1914 would have appeared unimaginably sophisticated duelled in the skies, some carrying experimental wireless radio sets, reporting real-time reconnaissance.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2014

She’d duelled for their freedom, out-pirated the pirates, gained the crew’s respect so well that Blackbeard finally put them ashore lest Hylla take over his ship.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Christopher and Anya’s adventures unspool at a breathless pace as they hop from island to island, dueling with pirates, trespassing among giants and competing in a deadly street race featuring some of Glimouria’s nastier creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Despite the dueling proposals, talks between the countries are still in their early stages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The duo layer backing tracks until they seemingly collapse, like the dueling accenting rhythms of “Soledad” or the spacey and spectacular “Sensación,” which reaches a level of yearning that Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” couldn’t buy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Waymo refused, prompting the company and city to file dueling lawsuits against each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Only ten feet away, a man had appeared, a bow and quiver over his shoulder and two old-fashioned flintlock dueling pistols in his hands.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

As the name reflected, the museum contained duelling missions from the start, showcasing American technological advances and telling a more general historical story.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gyokeres could make use of long balls by duelling with defenders in wider areas, looking to run the channels.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

London's Metropolitan Police said ahead of the duelling events that it would mount one of its largest operations in recent years, as the British capital also hosts the FA Cup Final.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

The duelling Americans went with serve in the second set but the 24-year-old Anisimova cut an increasingly frustrated figure as her unforced error count mounted.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Percy had been intimidating enough before - summoning hurricanes, duelling pirates, killing giants in the Colosseum...

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan