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joust

noun as in combat

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Recently, one pair of cosmic dancers has turned astronomer’s heads by performing a very dangerous routine — which they’ve nicknamed the cosmic joust!

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Evenings at the Breach House are not all make-out sessions, literary jousting and pizza.

Fleetwood and Thomas jousted through the back nine and also made it to the last all square.

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Verbal jousting on British and Irish Lions tours is as much a part of the deal as the rugby itself - and the mind games started anew in recent days.

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But this food aid appears to have become be another chess piece in the joust between California and the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure state and local officials to follow its edicts.

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