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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Itching for a robust little set-to, they rode around waving the California Republic’s Bear Flag — which by then was a states’ rights symbol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
Back in the United States, Nixon, poised to run for the presidency, gained stature as a tough anti-Communist in his set-to with Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2016
Originally scheduled for July 2015, the superhero set-to will now appear on 6 May, 2016.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2014
Harrison, no ways backward, accepted the challenge, and both prepared for a set-to.
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
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
The Gants' tumultuous strifes and set-tos constantly startle and sometimes even rout the genteel, almost ghostly boarders.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will be some grand set-tos between mother and Robert.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
