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Example sentences for: duel

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Hardly anyone now remembers why Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought a duel, or why Andrew Johnson was almost voted out of office.
On Sunday, heartwarming but predictable made-for-TV movies duel with the much-hyped X-Files that "exposes" the convoluted alien conspiracy.
John Law, a Scotsman, financier, and high-rolling gambler, on the run from England after a fatal duel, saw the possibility of promoting this distant marshland as a paradise.
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.
Because the Democrats were mostly "triangulating" their children and families message to duel with the similar message that came out of the Republican National Convention a few weeks before, I'd tackle Sen.