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Recent Examples of fistfight
There are swordfights and fistfights and giant armies facing off against volcanic mountains, not to mention one incredibly intimidating giant dragon.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Obviously there's jealousy, fistfights and lots of brooding.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The Metal Gear games have never exactly exceled at either gunplay or fistfights, but the restrictions around fluid action can be frustrating, especially when minute details like first- and third-person shooting have actually been improved.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then there are the fistfights, affairs, rogue celebrity renovations, and so, so much else.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Obviously there's jealousy, fistfights and lots of brooding.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The Metal Gear games have never exactly exceled at either gunplay or fistfights, but the restrictions around fluid action can be frustrating, especially when minute details like first- and third-person shooting have actually been improved.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then there are the fistfights, affairs, rogue celebrity renovations, and so, so much else.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fistfight
Noun
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But comics depend on feedback – punch-ups from fellow comedians and reactions from audiences – iterating jokes in the same way lean startups may innovate new products.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
25 Sep. 2025
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That said, the negative reputation surrounding the last lines in Jones’ thorny adaptation — a punch-up from Ellison’s original text that’s meaner and more sexist, no doubt — seems outsized.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
11 July 2025
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The Yankees started their slugfest in style against the Rays, as Judge’s big fly traveled 429 feet to the batter’s eye at Steinbrenner Field.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
20 Aug. 2025
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Hunter Henry, Austin Hooper, Jack Westover Notes: It’s been a slow, ugly slugfest among the backup tight ends to see who can win the No. 3 job.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
9 Aug. 2025
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But with American naval forces gathering off Venezuela's coast, fears are intensifying over what this growing show of force could mean for the prisoners — trapped between fragile diplomacy and the prospect of armed confrontation.—
Manuel Rueda,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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Satellite imagery, Pentagon releases, and ship tracking reports reveal stealth jets, Marines, and naval vessels poised across Puerto Rico and the eastern Caribbean, raising the specter of escalating tensions that some say could be the opening moves of a broader confrontation.—
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Hockey players aren’t known for being shy about fighting over different plays on the ice, but Wayne Gretzky and his current compatriots have learned not to come to blows.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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Rancorous debate in the GOTW meeting room as the panel nearly came to blows, with Broncos-Eagles supporters threatening a walkout as Bucs-Seahawks advocates were kicking over chairs.—
Greg Cote
October 2,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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Players have five main melee weapons — the katana, dual katana, odachi, kusarigama and yari.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The boozy night soon led to a fight and Lennon and Nilsson were escorted out of the venue, and per the original Sotheby’s catalog listing, Lennon lost the pair in the melee and Tommy Smothers’ wife grabbed them.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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Guardiola was agitated that Van Hecke went to ground inside his own penalty area in a shirt-tugging duel with Erling Haaland.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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One of the weirdest races in their duels was the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which saw them both experience a tough run of luck completely independent from each other.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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They get wasted at a party and engage in a drunken brawl.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Big-market brawls between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees now happen yearly.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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But back in the 2010s, Kershaw was a dominant strikeout pitcher who recorded at least 200 punch-outs in a season seven times during the ten-year span from 2010 to 2019.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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The lefty was able to work his way out of trouble each time, first striking out Ozuna to end the third before getting a pair of punch-outs to end the fourth after initially putting two on with nobody out.—
Mac Cerullo,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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“Fistfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fistfight. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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