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showdown
noun as in confrontation
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The Super Bowl had been hyped as one for the ages, a showdown between two star QBs.
In the Sacramento Report, Sara Libby reports on a major showdown between teachers and the governor.
The first component to setting up just the third all-time meeting between the schools unfolded when the Bulldogs revealed this month that one player and one staff member tested positive, leading to a postponement of their showdown with No.
This led to a showdown last fall with the United Auto Workers, and the biggest auto-industry strike in a decade.
Sunday’s other standout offensive performance was submitted by Titans running back Derrick Henry, who trampled the Indianapolis Colts for 178 rushing yards and a trio of touchdowns as Tennessee won a key divisional showdown.
Gordon G. Chang is a Forbes.com columnist and the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World.
Regardless of how the showdown ends, it does serve a very clear signal of what the political climate will be in the next Congress.
Instead, it would set the stage for a massive showdown in February, when Republicans would control both the House and the Senate.
The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown.
With Donetsk now encircled, the stage is set for a final and potentially very bloody urban showdown.
For the trade was not unduly worried as to the outcome in the event of a showdown.
One day they waited for him and brought matters to a showdown.
Then he'd have a two-gun showdown with those men like Sawtell and Lombard and the worthless cousins.
Maybe there was a showdown—and the wind-up of it is that Nick comes home meek as a six-year-old broke down in front.
But suppose this was a showdown between Lumbrilo and Asaki—whose side would these men take?
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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to showdown, such as: clash, crisis, climax, culmination, unfolding, and breaking point.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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