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combats
  • present tense form of combat (3rd person singular).

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The game might, at long last, stop introducing me to new mechanics every three hours, allowing me to finally figure out how combat’s supposed to fit together.

From The Verge • Jul. 26, 2022

The combat's consummation is proclaimed By the wind instruments.

From A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy by Spalding, William

"The race appointed she has run, The combat's o'er, the prize is won."

From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill

The combat's relinquished, old loves all forgot: To the widow he's bound.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.

But who is she? whom Conrad's arms convey, From reeking pile and combat's wreck, away— Who but the love of him he dooms to bleed?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley