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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before it was over, knuckle-dusters had been used and two of the combatants were taken to hospital.
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But the new strategy threatens not only combatants, but those coordinating attacks.
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On one side of the river, the combatants represented good.
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Political combatants now routinely impugn the very moral fiber of their opponents.
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The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants.
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The group is believed to have about 100 combatants.
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The two combatants gradually edge off to the other side of the street.