Thesaurus results for SINGLE COMBAT

single combat

noun

as in pitched battle

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Recent Examples of single combat The Laughing Storm rebelled against the crown, but the short rebellion came to an end after Dunk and Lyonel engaged in single combat with Dunk emerging victorious. —

James Grebey, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026 Why Bomber Kills Are Undercounted OSINT analyst Andrew Perpetua who analyzes, tabulates and tries to geolocate every single combat video out of Ukraine , believes that the effect of night bombers is being seriously underestimated. —

David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 Ergo, Peter must best the city’s fiercest warrior in single combat, fly and make a bereaved countess laugh for the first time since her brother died in battle. —

Michael Nordine, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023 The matter might have ended there, but John kept trying to convince Edward to fight him in single combat for the throne. —

Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022 Moments later, Helen learned that Paris had agreed to fight her jilted husband, Menelaus, in single combat, to decide the outcome of the war. —

Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022

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Noun

That brought retaliatory attacks against Sunni Muslim residents, and there have been pitched battles between armed groups from both sides.

— Reuters, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
Parents and teachers on hand for the first day of school said the program was a welcome creation, allowing children to have a semblance of a normal education and social interaction with other students, even as Russian and Ukrainian troops fight pitched battles in the region.

— Heidi Levine, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023