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Example sentences for: pitting

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Since disco came precisely at a time when the privileged classes, in their political incarnation, were busily pitting working-class whites against blacks through such innovations as forced busing, this seems like an odd alliance, to say the least.
At the international tournament of town criers, hear local newsmongers in 18th-century costume pitting their Oyez!
Those possibilities were what he was pitting himself against while his contemporaries in the 1950s, for example, were battling the picture plane.
He brought Dayak leaders onto his ruling council but favored the time-honored colonial practice of divide-and-rule by pitting one tribe against another to keep the peace.
The NYT says that most of the top House majority positions will be up for grabs in the coming days, pitting GOP personalities and ideological factions against each other.