skirmish

The skirmish illustrates how America’s grid is being strained by AI power demand and increasingly common wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But if the first go-rounds last year were tragedy—depressing stocks, spiking prices, and rending hearts in both countries—the latest skirmish is starting to look more like farce.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Hilarious,” Smart said with a smirk of the postgame skirmish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

According to him the war in Lebanon is "a separate skirmish".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

There was the occasional border skirmish, but crossings from one side to the other were rare.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

Thanks to skirmishes with Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup, Pollock has pantomime villain status in the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Unitree humanoids are among the world's most recognisable, having wowed audiences with fluid martial arts dances and robot-on-robot kickboxing skirmishes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The book ends with a few skirmishes during the Reagan administration, including when U.S.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

These sorts of legal skirmishes happen all the time in this country.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026

Battles and skirmishes were fought on the north part of New York Island, though the city was safe.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

He skirmished with health department officials and at times the White House, where some came to regard him as a rogue agent, the Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Hezbollah and Israel have skirmished along the tense Lebanon-Israel border.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Riordan understood what our erstwhile owners did not: We had all skirmished in the arena, but there was no reason we couldn’t celebrate the important role of an independent media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

Both empires had ambitions to expand their influence, and they regularly skirmished with one another and attempted to meddle in each other’s politics, including by supporting rival claimants to the throne.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The skirmishing came hours after Trump announced a new initiative to get ships that have been bottled up in the Persian Gulf out through the crucial waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Black does well in the early skirmishing in this Four Knights Game, but fails to respond adequately when Kupchik opens up the play in the center.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

The skirmishing was not just on the battlefield.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“I think that augurs well for the pretrial skirmishing to come if she charges,” Eisen said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

Now Jerry waited for Carter to emerge from the jungle of skirmishing bodies as Guilmet plunged off tackle.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier