martial

Example Sentences

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A new study examining cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters reports that the brain's waste-clearing system appears to weaken after repeated blows to the head.

From Science Daily

The award for non-scripted entertainment went to Danish reality TV series Shaolin Heroes, which follows contestants leaving their conventional lives behind to pursue martial arts.

From BBC

Nevertheless, he is championing proposed legislation to create a pension plan for mixed martial arts, another combat sport regulated by the commission.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than embracing football at an early age, Jackson followed his brother into taekwondo — a Korean martial art predicated on an orchestra of punches and kicks.

From Seattle Times

Those chapters became her debut novel, “The Poppy War,” a martial arts-infused Chinese military history that drew on the Second Sino-Japanese War.

From New York Times