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Recent Examples of melee For example, a melee unit is ineffective against enemies above or below it. PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025 The affected musicians were rushed out of the melee to receive emergency medical aid. Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025 Of course, there’s a third party in the melee too — Beom-mo’s wife, who has been having an affair. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025 Players have five main melee weapons — the katana, dual katana, odachi, kusarigama and yari. Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for melee
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Noun
  • These brawls further eroded democratic norms, while driving voters away from left-wing and moderate parties who seemed helpless to halt them.
    Time, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Of the many people involved in the brawl, only Iverson and three other Black men were convicted.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Amazon Prime commentator Kirk Herbstreit said as a guess at Rodgers' response to Jones, as footage of the sideline near-skirmish played for viewers.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Why This Hurts More Than Before US-China trade tensions aren’t just another tariff skirmish.
    Vitalii Savryha, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Melee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melee. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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