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In the dressing room, officials who had been skirmishing earlier now laughed and shook hands and posed for photographs.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2014

Unilever subsidiary Ragu Foods, which since 1989 had been skirmishing over the same word on labels for its processed pasta sauce, soon dropped its fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was on the second day out, after they had been skirmishing for water in every direction, that the lads heard the familiar yell from Chunky.

From The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail by Patchin, Frank Gee

Far away up the river, on the right of the line, a lieutenant with two men was wading across after some hostiles that had been skirmishing with his troop.

From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic

Early and McLaws had been skirmishing on their fronts all day, but it was 6 P.M. before everything was in readiness for the final advance.

From Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Doubleday, Abner