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skirmish

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And earlier that day, the 43-year-old had earned the précis, breaking up a skirmish by the Staten Island Ferry.

As we hear in Mark 15:7, he was apparently an insurrectionist, an anti-Roman revolutionary, and had killed someone in a skirmish.

A half-an-hour earlier they had been caught in the middle of a mortar barrage in a skirmish with separatists.

That is a high death toll for Hezbollah in a skirmish inside Lebanon on its home territory.

The brief skirmish between Hamas and Israel in 2012 also ended with Hamas still in place.

As they neared Paris, they heard firing, and became aware a slight skirmish was in progress.

He was a mere boy, who, in a rash skirmish with some of our hussars, was wounded severely and taken prisoner.

A couple of miles out of the town, in the neighbourhood of La Paz, the entrenched enemy was routed after a slight skirmish.

The post-office strike has already shown us what deplorable disasters even a skirmish can bring about.

First, though, I'd like to present you a decoration to commemorate your part in this skirmish, Wes.

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On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skirmish, such as: altercation, argument, battle, bout, brawl, and clash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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