SKIRMISHING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

skirmishing

verb

present participle of skirmish

as in brawling

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Grammy award-winning singer Chris Brown to be sentenced over brawling at a London nightclub three years ago.

— Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2026
Combs was previously placed in solitary confinement after brawling with another inmate back in July.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of brawling

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The decor nods to her career without losing sight of the hotel’s purpose as a place to unwind after a day exploring Music City.

— Tracey Teo, AJC.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Aljafari is recognized for his distinctive cinematic practice exploring memory, history, identity and the politics of images.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2026

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Perhaps the most noteworthy sports figure to battle Parkinson’s was boxing great Muhammad Ali, who died in 2016.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The pier-to-pier walk in Southern California’s South Bay was supported by boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, celebrity TV host Brooke Burke, actor Nate Simon and baseball icons Chris Taylor, Kyle Karros and Jared Karros.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

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The documentary angle, of course, is this great director probing the ethics in his own vocation as an intrusive force, one that shapes lives, emotions and, in this case, the weight of a genuine tragedy.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The movie is replete with long moments of silence, intense stares and gentle teasing and probing among the four that can feel particularly electric to some viewers.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026

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Its biggest selling point is the brand-new Privacy Display feature, which can dim screen visibility from the side and make snooping nearly impossible.

— Nitish Pahwa, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of snooping

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That time comes out of prospecting, planning and relationship expansion.

— Satish Avhad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
The prospecting company, now called Hydroma, had a small electrical plant constructed to convert the gas into power for the village’s residents.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026

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Unlike training approaches that largely depend on preparing datasets and updating models before deployment, this framework allows robots to continue learning while performing actual jobs.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
This technique has since been used to study neural circuits involved in everything from defecation to learning.

— Simon Makin, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of learning

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The center back would immediately shoot the ball, which took a fortunate bounce immediately outside the goal area before finding the bottom-left corner of the net.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
When a server migration wipes out Sally’s treasured videos of him — and her phone containing backup copies accidentally shatters — the only hope is finding the original tapes.

— Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

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