duel
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t the neck-and-neck duel spectators might have hoped to see.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The playoff near-miss did, however, tease the one thing missing from the rivalry between the two most dominant forces in men’s golf: a true duel with a major on the line.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
"Few answers are going to be complete, especially when you cut me off all the time," the visibly irritated multibillionaire said as he resumed his duel Thursday morning with the defense attorney for OpenAI.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
The much anticipated pitching duel between Gary Morse of Orange Lutheran and Julian Garcia of St. John Bosco on Wednesday under the lights at Hart Park exceeded expectations.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
He’d known it from the moment the duel started, and began sweating when she had the opportunity to bestow a winning blow and failed to deliver it.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Vocabulary lists containing duel
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