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set-to
noun as in altercation
noun as in argument
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noun as in bout
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noun as in brush
noun as in clash
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noun as in conflict
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noun as in conflict
noun as in confrontation
noun as in contention
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noun as in contest
noun as in difference
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noun as in encounter
noun as in fight
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noun as in fighting
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noun as in fracas
noun as in fray
noun as in friction
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noun as in melee
noun as in misunderstanding
noun as in polemic
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noun as in quarrel
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noun as in row
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noun as in run-in
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noun as in scrap
noun as in scuffle
noun as in squabble
noun as in struggle
noun as in tilt
noun as in tourney
noun as in wrangle
verb as in argue
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verb as in attack
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verb as in buckle down
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- address
- apply oneself
- attend to
- bend
- concentrate on
- dedicate oneself to
- devote oneself to
- exert oneself
- get serious
- give
- give oneself over to
- keep close to
- keep one's mind on
- knuckle down
- launch into
- occupy oneself with
- pitch in
- plunge into
- put one's hand to the plow
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- set to
- swing into action
- take the bull by the horns
- throw
- turn
verb as in contend
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verb as in contest
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verb as in debate
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verb as in disagree
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verb as in embark on
verb as in enter
verb as in pettifog
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verb as in pitch in
verb as in quarrel
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verb as in quibble
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verb as in take up
Example Sentences
Itching for a robust little set-to, they rode around waving the California Republic’s Bear Flag — which by then was a states’ rights symbol.
Black leaders and groups sponsored the first Black float, “Freedom Bursts Forth,” for the 1964 parade, after a very public set-to over the parade’s absence of people of color.
The three-issue set-to opened in Marvel Mystery Comics No. 8 and is an early example of the Marvel motto “to reflect the world outside your window.”
To date, the lesson from the set-to — that publishing a senator arguing that federal troops could be deployed against rioters is unacceptable — will forever circumscribe what issues opinion sections are allowed to address.
The set-to in this case was between those who applauded the “Memoria” strategy as a defense of the aesthetic superiority of going to the movies and those who scorned it as elitist and exclusionary.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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