single combat
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Halfway through the movie, to ward off full-scale war with the Philistines, David volunteers to engage in single combat with the enemy’s champion: an oversize fellow named Goliath.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
The single combat involves swinging a conker -- a hardened horse chestnut -- on a string at your opponent's nut with murderous venom, until one is smashed to pieces.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
The Leopold was the first destroyer-escort lost in WWII, and it was the worst loss of life in a single combat action in Coast Guard history.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020
While it’s fun to harp on individual matchups, bouts of single combat rarely tell the whole story.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2019
Finally Turnus and Aeneas meet in single combat.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
