set-to
- altercation n.
- argument n.
- bout n.
- brush n.
- clash n.
- conflict n.
- conflict n.
- confrontation n.
- contention n.
- contest n.
- difference n.
- encounter n.
- fight n.
- fighting n.
- fracas n.
- fray n.
- friction n.
- melee n.
- misunderstanding n.
- polemic n.
- quarrel n.
- row n.
- run-in n.
- scrap n.
- scuffle n.
- brouhaha n.
- squabble n.
- struggle n.
- tilt n.
- tourney n.
- wrangle n.
- argue v.
- attack v.
- buckle down v.
- contend v.
- contest v.
- debate v.
- disagree v.
- embark on v.
- enter v.
- pettifog v.
- pitch in v.
- quarrel v.
- quibble v.
- take up v.
- wade v.
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Black leaders and groups sponsored the first Black float, “Freedom Bursts Forth,” for the 1964 parade, after a very public set-to over the parade’s absence of people of color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
The three-issue set-to opened in Marvel Mystery Comics No. 8 and is an early example of the Marvel motto “to reflect the world outside your window.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Anyway, this promises to be quite the enjoyable set-to.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2017
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
"Then you don't want these fellows to have a set-to?"
From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
It’s qualitatively different from the kind of tiredness that comes from an afternoon of set-tos and whining when you and your kid are stuck in a room together.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2019
During the day he cares for the inmates, consoling them, moderating their set-tos and tenderly putting them, when the time comes, to sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
But the formal strictures of such set-tos mask the fact that debate, in its loosest form, is something most people engage in almost daily.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2010
And so are director Wes Craven's inventive stagings of these set-tos.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have never been anything else but complaisant in the little set-tos with your father, Miss Genevieve.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
