Example Sentences

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Ending the dueling blockades in the deal’s first phase would help the global economy, and especially Iran’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The decision also drops at a moment when more than a dozen other states are weighing their own mask laws — laws that could create a tangle of dueling precedents across the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Instead, they wrote what was in essence a series of dueling law-review articles on the major-questions doctrine.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

SpaceX and Blue Origin, the respective space companies of dueling billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are contracted to develop lunar landers used in the Artemis program.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

It did not even look as though Dumbledore had cleared a space for dueling practice.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling