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I soon found myself clambering on hands and knees in my swim shorts into a dirt-floored dome made from sticks and blankets, and sitting cross-legged as red-hot volcanic stones were laid in a central pit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

So going back to the math: Write down what all of these scenarios cost, and then pit it against your savings and any other guaranteed income.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

He closed in on Antonelli initially, and let the gap to within two seconds by the time the Mercedes driver made his second pit stop on lap 40.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

"You don't leave things behind that you can still use, so why was this purposefully put into a pit?"

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

The walls were bare except for a single cheap clock that hung off-center on the wall next to the television, like it was counting down the minutes until you disappeared into a pit of despair.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

But “Secret Wars” gets its name from a couple of Marvel comic book storylines that involve various heroes being pitted against each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The artificiality of all this, however, has pitted him against traditionalists who believe in the ocean's ability to self-heal.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

But what was unusual this time was that it pitted the shocked and angry voices against authorities who said they were concerned about the four boys involved, all of them younger than 14.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Throughout his career, Neill pitted himself against creatures both real and imagined — or, even more often, somewhere in-between — to reveal humanity’s foibles in the face of the freakish and fantastic.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

I reached underneath and found a patch of pitted metal that crumbled like stale crackers.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

The rapper, who was just 25 when he died, was a key figure in a hip-hop rivalry pitting the East Coast against the West Coast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Even 254SMO super stainless steel, considered a benchmark chromium based corrosion resistant alloy with excellent resistance to pitting in seawater, faces this problem.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

What he finds is a conflict pitting human progress, and its attenuating battle for power and domination, against nature.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The race to build the dominant AI video model has created a fierce rivalry, pitting U.S. companies against the fast-closing Chinese competitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond