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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

Le Ngoc Mai Uyen was a frequent visitor to the park named after her grandmother, revolutionary fighter Le Thi Rieng, before she realised her relative's body may be buried there.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

That led Abu Dhabi to pull billions of dollars of orders for a U.K.-made jet fighter, said Christopher Davidson, an academic who has written extensively about the U.A.E. royal family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Tamara didn’t often fly along when the 586th was given assignments, either because of her leg injury or because she wasn’t familiar with the high-performance Yak-1 fighter aircraft.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

In April, while Prigozhin stayed at the hotel in Bangui, Wagner fighters in Russian helicopters conducted aerial surveillance of wildcat gold-mining operations near the South Sudan border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

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

A few days later, an American platoon sloshed through a paddy of waist-high rice plants, scanning in all directions for enemy fighters.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin


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