single combat
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Halfway through the movie, to ward off full-scale war with the Philistines, David volunteers to engage in single combat with the enemy’s champion: an oversize fellow named Goliath.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
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
Musk further instigated his fan base with another tweet that challenged Putin to a single combat duel.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2022
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
Finally Turnus and Aeneas meet in single combat.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
