battle royal

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Recent Examples of battle royal Then, to complete the drama, the big grizzly had caught the two intruders and slaughtered them in a battle royal. Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025 After all, who doesn't love a giant in a battle royal? Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 At the time of the match, DDP had not wrestled in a decade, aside from a few appearances in WWE battle royals that required minimal physicality. Nathan Kamal, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 Meanwhile, Hendry virally appeared in a battle royal on NXT and also challenged Ethan Page for the NXT Championship at No Mercy. Jeremy Hanna, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for battle royal
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Noun
  • Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Billing disputes, debt collections and other leading indicators of bankruptcy are also on the rise.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Panthers center Sam Bennett, who had a contentious altercation with Marchand in Round 2 of the playoffs last year, said Marchand’s first message after being added to the team group chat was a chirp.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The footage shows an altercation between Perez and a man that officials say lasted for about 15 minutes before officers arrived on the scene.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The quarrel escalated into a fight, and Hernandez was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen, cops said.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • As the Venetians and the Ottoman Turks squabble over Cyprus in the background, the men before us quarrel over everything—a woman, a job, a handkerchief.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The sort-of antagonist in The Last of Us Part II first stirred up controversy when the game originally debuted in 2020.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Up next, a ubiquitous presence on television, unafraid of controversy, sounding off on everything from sports to pop culture to politics.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 27-year-old’s striking was on point throughout the fight.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • According to Fox 4 News, Anthony, who is Black, is accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, who was white during a fight at Kuykendall Stadium.
    Oumou Fofana, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is the classic day for disagreements with anyone in a position of authority.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Early disagreements or toxic positivity among leaders can leave deep, long-lasting cultural scars that become institutionalized as dysfunction.
    Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Combs’ defense team made arguments for delaying the trial up to two months, but the judge was not swayed.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Gregory, who became known as Gregory the Great, had reasons to advance such an argument.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Unfortunately, the older teens (including Louise’s nemesis, Logan) have taken over the area for snowball fights, and the younger kids get caught in the cross fire.
    Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Cemeteries, too, will do a land office business, not only with dead gangsters, but innocents too, caught in the cross fire.
    Walter E Block, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2025

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