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
  • The dispute has unfolded as CBS parent company Paramount Global seeks the FCC’s approval for a multi-billion-dollar merger with Skydance.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said that its around 450 members in New Jersey Transit were walking off the job at 12:01 a.m., in a dispute over pay.
    Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The jury also saw photos of injuries Ventura sustained from an altercation in December 2011 and photos of her with a black eye mostly concealed by sunglasses in Jamaica in 2013 or 2014.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • In 2012 he was involved in a brawl with Drake and his entourage at a N.Y. nightclub that injured eight people, followed by an altercation with Frank Ocean over a parking space in West Hollywood in 2013.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Knowing her grandson was outside, Mette called out to the group as the commotion grew, demanding the quarrel stop and for her grandchild to leave, sources said.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • This time, however, testimony suggested a thornier layer to the quarrel: Phillip said the family had learned a few years earlier that the older brother was not Ferguson’s biological child.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her crypto controversy began the very next day, resulting in a show hiatus.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • But the treaty is not without its controversies, some of which remain to be sorted out.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The awards ceremony reception was being held outdoors when the fight between two adults led to the stabbing, a Fort Worth ISD spokesperson said in a statement.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 May 2025
  • Even when cases of public console hacking have led to protracted legal fights—such as George Hotz's saga with the PS3 or Team Xecuter's Switch jailbreaks—console makers don't seem to have used technical means to completely disable offline functions for specific consoles.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • However, disagreements on how she would be featured ended without a cover and with the friendship irrevocably broken.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 19 May 2025
  • Some of my issues with it boil down to disagreements with Naughty Dog’s choices.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • There is certainly an argument that a draw would have been a fair result, a debate further enhanced by the tone of Howe’s comments afterwards.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • During an argument in the car, Lanez allegedly directed expletives at Megan and her friend.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 13 May 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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