brawler

as in fighter
a person who takes part in a dispute every couple has marital problems, but those two are heavyweight brawlers in a seriously dysfunctional relationship

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Noun
  • The soldier had been badly injured in a shootout in Kursk with a Ukrainian fighter from the 8th regiment whose call sign is Bulat.
    Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 16 June 2025
  • American fighter jets were also patrolling the sky in the Middle East to protect personnel and installations, and air bases in the region are taking additional security precautions, the officials said.
    Danielle Wallace , Liz Friden, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • When New York comptroller and fellow mayoral candidate Brad Lander was taken into ICE custody this week while escorting a defendant out of immigration court, Mamdani stood alongside Lander’s wife and protested the arrest.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • Some of the findings should bolster plaintiffs’ arguments, while others may be more helpful to defendants.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • On Tuesday, the court expanded the injunction to apply to any passport holder, not only the plaintiffs, pausing the policy while the lawsuit plays out.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 19 June 2025
  • Both sides, meaning the plaintiffs being the athletes and the defendants meaning the conferences and the NCAA.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Lee is sixty-one years old, a scrapper with a potent backstory.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
  • Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The Jay Treaty asked the disputants merely to start a process leading to the appointment of arbitrators qualified to decide their disputes fairly and finally.
    Tom Bell, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • However, if the harassment or dispute is simply two neighbors being un-neighborly toward each other, the HOA’s best response may be to offer a volunteer board member to meet with the disputants to try to host a discussion between them.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Brawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brawler. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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