sparring partner
Example Sentences
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Last week, the star posted a martial arts video on Instagram in which he hit a sparring partner with a combo before saying to the camera, “I don’t age, I level up.”
From Los Angeles Times
Rather, as Gerri Kimber explains in “Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life,” they would be known as literary sparring partners, both engaged in the high-stakes project of forging a new modernist literature.
Cuban heavyweight Frank Sanchez and American puncher Jared Anderson are also sparring partners.
From BBC
Sure enough, my PB&J comes out of the bag looking like a sumo wrestler used it as a sparring partner.
From Literature
The boxer is a sparring partner for Marian, who works out her aggression in the ring.
From Los Angeles Times
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