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
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
I called Mr. Smith about our set-to in 2010.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2014
Originally scheduled for July 2015, the superhero set-to will now appear on 6 May, 2016.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2014
I set-to furiously on the image in the looking-glass.
From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine
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 Lynde, Francis
