battle royal

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Everyone expected a production starring two rival queens of the studio era to be an on-set battle royal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Naomi Alderman’s new dystopia, ‘The Future,’ finds a new way into the genre she mastered in ‘The Power’: a battle royal of preppers, tech billionaires and cults.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

What he said is a reminder that legal skirmishes over the particulars of an execution are different from a battle royal over the moral heart of America.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2024

"There's going to be a battle royal where everybody's trying to throw Andre the Giant out of the ring. And once that happens, if that happens, the campaign resets."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

I had some misgivings over the battle royal, by the way.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison