single combat

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The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Project Convergence reflects the need to rapidly merge a variety of assets — both in the air and on the ground — into a single combat element, the focus of the new training regime.

From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2020

While it’s fun to harp on individual matchups, bouts of single combat rarely tell the whole story.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2019

At the time, no one realized that the space race was single combat revived in a slightly, but only slightly, new form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2016

They whispered of Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys's Kingsguard, and of how their young lord had slain him in single combat.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin