martial
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The two characters - long-standing icons of the games - are martial artists who trained under the same teacher before their relationship went sour.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
He’s not a baseball fan; he prefers beach volleyball and mixed martial arts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
True, there have been moments in the nation’s martial past when social progress and military resistance sat in uneasy tension.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Jujitsu is the Japanese martial art that uses an attacker’s force against him and through the clever use of leverage allows a smaller person to defeat a larger opponent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He was wondering with half his mind which of Kay’s questions the magician would choose to answer, but the other half was still upon the martial possibilities of the landscape.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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