set-to
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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
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
France complained to Fifa after spotting one monitoring their leg-stretches at Botafogo’s Santa Cruz stadium, causing the tournament’s first set-to.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2014
"But if you do have a set-to with her?"
From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry
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
Roger Kahn was on the beat too back in the '50s, when Gallagher's and Toots Shor's were auxiliary press boxes for regular Yankees-Dodgers 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 Lynde, Francis
