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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All three companies are in a pitched battle over who invented the technology.
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Thirty students were injured in a pitched battle with police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a pitched battle , no less than 29 of the gang were arrested.
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I had expected rage, flying pupusas, a pitched battle .
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Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
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She so much wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
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The month before, the Metropolitans had fought a pitched battle with their rivals for control of City Hall.
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The other type of offence involved in effect a preconceived and premeditated pitched battle , often accompanied by the use of weapons.