I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
challenge
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It would be like slapping the girl in the face with a glove and challenging her to a duel .
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When the Marquis again states the impossibility, despite his love for her { quote } Juan challenges him to a duel .
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Full of jealousy, Aleman challenges Milton to a duel .
fight
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They fought a duel using huge thorns of the sacred crab-apple tree, and Hahgwehdiyu emerged victorious.
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Did he really fight a duel with bowie knives in a riverside faro den?
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Talking to Murtach was like fighting a duel at times.
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I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death, and that it would end in a draw.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A verbal duel at the conference showed the depth of disagreement between the two countries.
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Bob Welch won a pitching duel with Jack Morris by the score of 3-1.
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In 1779, Decatur was killed in a duel .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet you plot away and think you can have some kind of... of duel ?
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Did he really fight a duel with bowie knives in a riverside faro den?
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His two interceptions Sunday broke the back of the Pittsburgh Steelers as Dallas won the duel in the desert, 27-17.
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Hoping that the Marquis will marry his daughter, he suspends the duel .
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It would be silly to try to represent the duel between the Miller and the Reeve as merely good-natured fraternal leg-pulling.
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Ninety-eight years after the first Molyneux-Cribb duel , a black man ascended to the apogee of sporting achievement.
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The duel was continuous and completely silent.
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When the Marquis again states the impossibility, despite his love for her { quote } Juan challenges him to a duel .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A case of duelling legal directories is going to trial.
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And this was true - for only mature Battle Brothers were permitted to duel .
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But the briefest conversation with Shahi Smart reveals some one college admissions officers might well duel over.
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He wasn't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas.
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I liked his liking, the exuberance of banjos duelling through the hollow bedroom walls when he was home.
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In June 1719 two fashionable doctors duelled with swords.
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Tonia Kwiatkowski and Kyoko Ina duel for the third place on the podium.