as in to fight
to oppose (someone) in physical conflict
growing up in the inner city he had often scrimmaged with neighborhood toughs
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More than other age groups, teens have to fight to stay on a schedule that doesn't match their biology.—
NPR,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025 -
Since taking office, Manzo, often seen wearing a bulletproof vest, had called on the federal government to do more to fight organized crime while expressing fears for his own safety.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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Then Byrd, who didn’t start one exhibition and didn’t play in the other while battling various injuries, limped off early in the second half after stepping on someone’s foot.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Hundreds of fire personnel worked to battle the blaze, intensified by the plane's 220,000 pounds of jet fuel.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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The state has also advanced in large-scale restoration through innovative mechanisms such as restoration concessions, while intensifying actions to combat deforestation and forest fires.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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To combat some of these bias issues, Giga is working with open-source and multilingual LLMs and has developed a feature that lets customers opt into talking in a native language.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Scrimmage (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrimmage%20%28with%29. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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