sparring match
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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
In 1929, Fitzgerald was the timekeeper in a sparring match between Hemingway and the Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan, who years earlier served on the staff at The Toronto Star with Hemingway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
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
The conversation was supplied mainly by the girl and Willie, and took the form of a wordy sparring match.
From Wee Macgreegor Enlists by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
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