sparring match
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, Musk said on X that he planned to take legal action against Apple, causing a sparring match on the social media platform between him and OpenAI’s Altman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
Over the weekend, he posted a long message complaining that the New York Times was planning to report that he’d gotten roughed up, injuring his shoulder, in a sparring match with an agency jujitsu instructor.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
The English-language TV debate is usually the most widely watched political sparring match on Canada's federal campaign election calendar.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2021
It was perhaps less of a sparring match with a witness than an attempt to turn the whole thing into a joke, into a version of an Abbott and Costello routine.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2019
Those two must have finished their sparring match by now....
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
