skirmish
Example Sentences
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The Jan. 29 meeting was a byproduct of a legal skirmish between the Fed and the Justice Department.
From Barron's
Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.
By February 1862, more than two thousand soldiers had been killed, and roughly a hundred thousand had been wounded in dozens of minor skirmishes and major battles.
From Literature
To an outsider, the situation in Oxford might seem like a classic local skirmish between angry residents and their council.
From BBC
Let me remind you that Major Puff was a puffin whose ancestors were responsible for winning half a dozen wars, not to mention twenty-eighty significant battles and countless skirmishes of varied importance.
From Literature
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