battle
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The legal battle ended earlier this year when an appeals court issued a final ruling in favor of the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The association spends around six million euros annually, and is no doubt preparing for next year's battle over banking regulations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The hostile Vegas spotlight, meanwhile, evokes memories of Benn senior's ferocious 1995 battle with Gerald McClellan.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But AI is changing the battle on both sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
It welds itself to my hands and vibrates as if to say, Reporting for battle duty!
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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And that’s where the series’ high-value content plays out—not in the battles, not in the political posturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He went on to participate in several significant battles and survived a wound to the neck.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Before her hand could be raised in the ring, there were battles to be won outside of it.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Thick smog has blanketed parts of Indonesia as the vast archipelago for weeks battles to contain fires that have burned large swathes of Borneo and Sumatra.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
Let me remind you that Major Puff was a puffin whose ancestors were responsible for winning half a dozen wars, not to mention twenty-eighty significant battles and countless skirmishes of varied importance.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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He battled it with chemotherapy and radiation, according to reporting from USA Today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Several new mothers battled what looked like postpartum depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
He is joined in the second round in New York by compatriot Katie Boulter, who battled past American wildcard Carol Young Suh Lee 6-4 3-6 6-0.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Harry Brook and Lawrence battled to add 45 for the fifth wicket, a significant achievement given the task they faced.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
While the British and French were fighting the Germans at Verdun and the Somme, Russian and Italian troops battled the armies of Austria-Hungary on distant fronts.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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He also wanted to be closer to his father, who was battling cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The tourists were battling for survival on 52-2 - 268 adrift of making England bat again - when the bad weather intervened for a second and final occasion in Birmingham.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Zvernec residents have already been battling this appropriation of their land in the courts for 20 years, so in many ways, the Kushner development is just the latest twist.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Miami Dolphins gritted their teeth through $99 million in dead money when they released Tua Tagovailoa, who landed in Atlanta and is now battling for the quarterback gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Being chased by witches and warlocks, battling monsters, even defeating demons, was nothing compared to the task of facing the reality of our father’s abandonment.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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