sparring match
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Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
The litigation is the latest sparring match over the landmark legislation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
Ed Power wrote in The Telegraph the "60-minute conversation was less a sparring match between Morgan and Fiona Harvey than a dreary question-and-answer session".
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
Boxer Muhammad Ali visited in 1976 and engaged Mr. Jacomo in a friendly sparring match; the manager later called it “the biggest thrill of my life.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020
The conversation was supplied mainly by the girl and Willie, and took the form of a wordy sparring match.
From Wee Macgreegor Enlists by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
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