pitched battles

Definition of pitched battlesnext
plural of pitched battle
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Noun
  • Remember, Congress was given the power in the Constitution to formally declare war, and AUMFs were drawn up after the 9/11 attacks and Congress at that time passed an authorization for use of military force.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • Residents of the usually picturesque Russian resort town of Tuapse were this week warned not to leave the homes or open windows as authorities tackled intense fires from a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on the town’s oil refinery.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • As the Moon moves through your 10th House of Visibility, your actions speak louder than your intentions.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Avdija took exception to Castle’s actions and shoved him.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The video pans to an airstream on his Pacific Palisades property, which was destroyed by the devastating LA fires early last year.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Every edit, regeneration, and follow-up question a worker fires into a frontier model is training data, aggregated across hundreds of millions of users and tens of billions of conversations.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Pitched battles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitched%20battles. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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