showdown
Example Sentences
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A showdown against defending City champion El Camino Real on Tuesday didn’t start or end well for the Patriots.
From Los Angeles Times
And, on Sunday, it will face Kansas in a premier March Madness showdown of heavyweight coaches.
The CIF championship was not on the line, but it may as well have been Friday night in the annual boys’ volleyball showdown between Mira Costa and Loyola.
From Los Angeles Times
But for the Bruins to advance to past a Sunday showdown most likely against powerful Connecticut, Cronin says they’ll first need to contain Central Florida’s potent attack.
From Los Angeles Times
More than 100 people crowded into a bar on a chilly Saturday evening on Manhattan’s west side to draw up battle plans for a brewing national showdown over artificial-intelligence policy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
