skirmish
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“I fortunately escaped without a wound, though the right wing where I stood was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire,” he wrote after a 1754 skirmish with the French.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
To an outsider, the situation in Oxford might seem like a classic local skirmish between angry residents and their council.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
That adjective would not apply to a public skirmish between the president of the university and the consultant that conducted the study commissioned by the university.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
This being “Primal,” they’re set upon by a group of diminutive flesh-eaters with jagged teeth, igniting a life-or-death skirmish that, miraculously, steals the viewer’s breath.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
I look to him now for help as they continue to skirmish, but he's ignoring them.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Vocabulary lists containing skirmish
Much Ado About Nothing
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This Week In Words: August 30–September 4, 2020
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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