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pitting

noun as in mining

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“Havana” was his seventh and final big-screen collaboration with Pollack — a big-ticket “Casablana”-style romance that opened during a crowded holiday season, pitting it against “Hamlet” and “Godfather III,” among others.

The closures have become a sore spot for Newsom and for state Democrats, pitting their longtime clean-energy goals against concerns about the rising cost of living — a major political liability.

The New York Times illustrated the fallout of Dobbs in a Tuesday newsletter describing the “wildly divergent” state-level abortion laws pitting states against each other.

From Salon

Her first order of business, however, is pitting the scowling Ritter and bland, industrious Wittmers, who had managed a bearable distance so far, against each other.

“Now you’re pitting the Jewish community against other vulnerable communities,” he said.

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