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Recent Examples of fistfight
Upstairs, Innie Mark had just finished a brutal fistfight with Drummond, which began with the security chief’s near-successful strangulation of Mark and ended with goat lady Lorne (Gwendoline Christie) throwing several key punches.
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Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
Even the violence has a sense of poetry to it, as with a bloody fistfight that takes place in the water, witnessed by the quivering cab driver on the beach.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
Check out the first trailer below for shots of Cruise clinging onto a speeding biplane, sneaking through a busy square in London, and having a fistfight on board a sinking submarine.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, there was a fistfight between Lomax and Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, on the Newport grounds, briefly shown in the movie.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
Even the violence has a sense of poetry to it, as with a bloody fistfight that takes place in the water, witnessed by the quivering cab driver on the beach.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
Check out the first trailer below for shots of Cruise clinging onto a speeding biplane, sneaking through a busy square in London, and having a fistfight on board a sinking submarine.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, there was a fistfight between Lomax and Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, on the Newport grounds, briefly shown in the movie.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fistfight
Noun
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Often, when shows do crossovers, the writers on one will do punch-up for their characters on the other.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end there’s a punch-up, with several players involved.—
David Szalay,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Their last contest was a slugfest – literally – as the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves got into a brawl that resulted in multiple ejections.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
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It was suggested that KU may have been a fatigued team Thursday after downing UCF in an overtime slugfest Wednesday night.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The confrontation stopped and restarted as the man appeared to try to get the knife away from Perez over the fence.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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During the confrontation, the two men were shot, and both died on scene, officers said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Somehow, both Greig and Stolarz received minor penalties, which made the whole melee worth it for the Leafs.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Another example is unlocking the ability to parry after fighting enough creatures using melee weapons.—
David Jagneaux,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The 36-year-old deGrom, who also remains in that conversation even on the backside of his career, was almost as good in Friday’s pitcher’s duel.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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The show is partially set before the events of Revenge of the Sith, which ends with Anakin’s transformation into Darth Vader after being severely injured in a lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Same for a trip to a country bar, where Chris picks up the dance moves insanely quickly and Brax starts a window-crashing brawl.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Behind them, the brawl for the final two play-off places — to join one of the three aforementioned teams and Sunderland — continued to be played out between Middlesbrough, Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion and Bristol City.—
Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Asus chose to have a punch-out camera and obscure part of the screen rather than mount it in a larger bezel, which shows how form has come ahead of function.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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The hard-throwing lefty dominated across 72 appearances (72.0 innings), notching a 1.75 ERA and 1.13 WHIP with 84 punch-outs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Nov. 2024
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“Fistfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fistfight. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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