sparring
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Video footage taken shortly before her capture showed her sparring with two younger eagles, but exams revealed no wounds or broken bones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Remarkably, the only time they have ever shared a ring was during a sparring session at Finchley Amateur Boxing Club in 2010.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the A.I. age, Maggie Hennessy asserts, sparring with a grouchy maître d’ over the phone is part of what makes dining out great.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Plus, Apple’s legal sparring, and Wall Street’s problem with AI drug discovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
A few of Stannis’s knights were sparring on the far side of the yard.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Instead of the sparrings playing against the first team, for example, Sampaoli has introduced a mixed set of training sessions, where under-20s and first team train together.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2017
These gentlemen had had some sparrings in debate before, and continued ever very hostile to each other.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
In spite of sundry little sparrings, Johnson fully appreciated Goldsmith's genius.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
