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fighter

[fahy-ter] / ˈfaɪ tər /


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Trainer Ben Davison, criticised for not withdrawing Wardley sooner in their first contest, stood poised with a towel in his hand as his fighter survived to the bell.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

As for Bass, 73, you can’t count her out just yet because she’s a fighter, and she’s better at campaigning than at being mayor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Taiwanese fighter jets and two Chinook helicopters carrying giant Taiwan flags flew over the capital ahead of Lai's wide-ranging speech, which also covered housing pressure and the declining population.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The country’s defenders have been using F-16’s and other fighter planes, machine-gun turrets and interceptor drones to down Russian drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Haupt was powerfully built and an accomplished fighter in both wrestling and boxing.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

With tens of thousands of fighters and once-vast stores of missiles and drones, the group became the country’s most powerful fighting force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He had put on a bit of weight and had a full beard and thick handlebar mustache, a look typical for RVC fighters inspired by Russian counter-revolutionaries from 1917.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Israeli military said at the time that armed fighters had fired on the soldiers, who had "fired back at a suspect who observed" them, and that the details of the incident were under review.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Kurdish forces still hold around 2,200 foreign relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters in a northeastern Syria camp, an official there told AFP earlier this month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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