head-to-head
adverb or adjective
: in a direct confrontation or encounter usually between individuals
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Examples of head-to-head in a Sentence
it's fitting that the two best teams during the regular season will go head-to-head for the championship
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After going head-to-head the first time around, House of the Dragon Season 2, a Game of Thrones prequel, will be sharing the summer again with the second outing of Rings of Power, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings spin-off series.
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Lucy Ford, TIME, 23 May 2024
Trump’s lead in the head-to-head contest is a modest one: at or less than the margin of sampling error in four of the states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
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Lucy Ford, TIME, 23 May 2024
Trump’s lead in the head-to-head contest is a modest one: at or less than the margin of sampling error in four of the states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
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“Head-to-head.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head-to-head. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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