skirmished

past tense of skirmish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirmished
Verb
  • How The Hardys Defeated DarkState Both teams brawled before the bell rang.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Cody Rhodes came back with a Suicide Dive as the two brawled until the show went off the air.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cory and Topanga ultimately married, and their family life was explored across the three seasons of Girl Meets World, with Fishel and Savage reprising their roles.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • While some diseases, like seasonal allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases, are known to cause eosinophilia, or an abnormally high number of these cells, the role of eosinophilia in chronic pain hasn’t been well explored.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2019, county election officials probed allegations that donations Anderson accepted, including from four members of the Hamann family, may have violated local campaign finance rules and referred the case to the District Attorney’s Office.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • James' office probed allegations that the organization inflated the former president's net worth by billions of dollars and cheated lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Navigating the biz in Hollywood meant reinventing himself to prevent being boxed into comedic roles.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When backup tight end Nate Boerkircher boxed out Drayk Bowen for the game-winning touchdown, set up for glory by Reed’s throw on fourth-and-11 and Tyler Buchner’s botched extra point hold a drive earlier, the Texas A&M party broke contain.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On the fashion front, Schumacher, which was founded in New York by Parisian Frederic Schumacher in 1889, has been a pioneer in collaborations from its dawn.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The firm, which was founded in 2022, will utilize the funding to begin serial turbine production, refine its AI control algorithms, and develop next-generation models for diverse environments.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Prior to digitization, this could be ascertained by monitoring the circulation of screening prints between distributors in New York.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room temperature.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This statistical measure of heritability is notoriously difficult to interpret and limited in its import; twin studies, developed decades before the DNA molecule was discovered, also offered little insight into the biology of any particular trait.
    Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Skirmished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirmished. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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