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as in brawl
a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people
a dozen people were arrested after the donnybrook at the stadium
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as in altercation
an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions
the kind of hot-button issue that inevitably creates a donnybrook in the halls of the statehouse
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The unequal three-way donnybrook — film critics on one side, the vox populi and aggrieved artists on the other — is a digital-era twist on a perennial Hollywood story.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
Second, there is that political donnybrook sense of a right ugly fight while people hammer each other in hopes of furthering their own agendas.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
City officials said the donnybrook between FirstEnergy and Cleveland Public Power has spanned several years, both inside and outside courtrooms, fights that are likely to continue.
—John Caniglia, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
Wilson then followed up his battering of Buchnevich by body-slamming Artemiy Panarin to the ice during the ensuing donnybrook.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 May 2021
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
Second, there is that political donnybrook sense of a right ugly fight while people hammer each other in hopes of furthering their own agendas.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
City officials said the donnybrook between FirstEnergy and Cleveland Public Power has spanned several years, both inside and outside courtrooms, fights that are likely to continue.
—John Caniglia, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
Wilson then followed up his battering of Buchnevich by body-slamming Artemiy Panarin to the ice during the ensuing donnybrook.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 May 2021
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