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Among the criteria graded on Anderson's 'radar chart' were defensive regains, duel success, line-breaking passes, aerial-duel success and defensive errors.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Sinner and Alcaraz produced a clean sweep of the Grand Slam titles in 2024 and 2025, winning four majors apiece in a duopoly which has morphed into a generational duel.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

At that point in his duel with AlphaGo, Sedol thought of his opponent as merely a machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Why did book lovers stop just short of challenging Kondo to a duel over something she didn’t actually say?

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Because to make a sword for an eighty-year-old man to survive a duel, that would be something.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

They were winning aerial duels by 67.6% to 32.4%, they had eight shots to Celtic's one, six on target to Celtic's zero.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He's becoming a real monster in there, wins a lot of second balls and a lot of duels.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

"I can't accept, and we shouldn't accept, losing individual battles, duels, second balls, not winning enough tackles and just getting the momentum of the game going our way," the former Hearts manager added.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

One piece of the mudslinging was the Coffin Handbill, a famous campaign poster published by Adams supporters that showed rows of coffins and listed Jackson’s “bloody deeds”—his duels, the deaths of militiamen under his command.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

They had already dueled on the clay of Roland-Garros and the grass of Wimbledon this season, taking one final apiece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2025

You could choose to showcase different sorts of stories with a more positive attitude and still be a hit; see Oprah Winfrey, whose talk show Springer’s dueled with in the ratings.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Strome and Milano, teenagers at the time, dueled in a shootout after a winner couldn’t be decided in overtime.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023

Philly fans dueled with folks from Kansas City near concessions lines and back corridors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

The leather jacket belonged to the days of the Corsair when men dueled in the skies for possession of Pacific atolls and for airspace above the gray, endangered fleets.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

One of these players applied light pressure on Alisson while their other player duelled with Virgil van Dijk, impairing his movement.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Curran duelled with Mohammed Siraj, while Kohli went face-to-face with Ollie Robinson.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021

But Valérien Ismaël, Barnsley’s head coach, has previously duelled with Tuchel on the touchline in the Bundesliga, when his Wolfsburg side lost 3-0 to Borussia Dortmund.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2021

Open ended with Mickelson once again having to settle for being second after he and fellow American Payne Stewart had duelled for the title during a cool and rainy final round.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2014

She’d duelled for their freedom, out-pirated the pirates, gained the crew’s respect so well that Blackbeard finally put them ashore lest Hylla take over his ship.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Cyber company ReliaQuest is dueling online with hacking group ShinyHunters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The cone of silence around the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

For months, Uber and lawyers from across the state poured tens of millions into dueling ballot measures that threatened to devastate the profits of whichever side lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

According to Griffin’s dueling lawsuit, every element of her former classmate’s account is false, and the accusation that Griffin “stole the rape of another woman and built a bestseller on it” is fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

They were not alike; Aberforth was never bookish and, unlike Albus, preferred to settle arguments by dueling rather than through reasoned discussion.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

As the name reflected, the museum contained duelling missions from the start, showcasing American technological advances and telling a more general historical story.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Silva paired Reijnders ahead of a duelling Gonzalez.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

The duelling Americans went with serve in the second set but the 24-year-old Anisimova cut an increasingly frustrated figure as her unforced error count mounted.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Caldentey's industry and duelling, paired with her technical quality both centrally and out wide, made her one of the most complete footballers in the world last season.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

Percy had been intimidating enough before - summoning hurricanes, duelling pirates, killing giants in the Colosseum...

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan