set-to
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Oh, we had a fine set-to, I can tell you.
From The Late Tenant by Tracy, Louis