pitted

Example Sentences

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The original features “an all-American archetype of a virtuous family pitted against a monster,” while Scorsese depicted a “broken and dysfunctional family and the monster is even more extreme, he’s like a swamp creature.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The case pitted McGlockton’s right to defend his family from a threatening stranger against Drejka’s right to initiate a confrontation over a parking spot and then to mete out justice according to his own whim.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

It is the legal showdown that has pitted two of the biggest names in tech, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, against each other.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

One cannot avoid squabbling, she wrote, because it constitutes “the natural state of people pitted against each other, helplessly furious people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

We were going to have to be pitted against each other.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles