sparring
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Plus, Apple’s legal sparring, and Wall Street’s problem with AI drug discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Bonilla batted only .237 with seven home runs and 30 runs batted in for the Dodgers while sparring with Tom Lasorda, who succeeded Fred Claire as general manager on June 22 of that year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Vietnam and China have a history of sparring over the South China Sea, or the East Sea as Vietnam calls it.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Democratic and Republican candidates vying to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom have been sparring on televised debates and exchanging campaign attacks since April to garner the attention of voters statewide.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Instead of the sparrings playing against the first team, for example, Sampaoli has introduced a mixed set of training sessions, where under-20s and first team train together.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2017
These gentlemen had had some sparrings in debate before, and continued ever very hostile to each other.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
In spite of sundry little sparrings, Johnson fully appreciated Goldsmith's genius.
From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
