pit against
phrasal verb
pitted against; pitting against; pits against
: to cause (someone or something) to fight or compete against (another person or thing)
Tonight's game will pit Smith against Johnson for the championship.
The game requires you to pit your wits against the computer.
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Teams of human pairs aligned by their jobs or hobbies — like nurses, teachers, magicians and trivia aficionados — are pitted against hamsters in various obstacle courses and other contests scaled to each species for the chance to win a cash prize and prove their superiority.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Partly this is due to their real-life friendship, with both attending each other’s film premieres in 2023 and continuing to support one other even as they are invariably pitted against each other (even incidentally, as on lists like this one).
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
In fiction, machines are often pitted against nature.
—Arturo Conde, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
Country and rap, historically pitted against each other, have always been cousins, whose sounds have intertwined closely over recent years.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Partly this is due to their real-life friendship, with both attending each other’s film premieres in 2023 and continuing to support one other even as they are invariably pitted against each other (even incidentally, as on lists like this one).
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
In fiction, machines are often pitted against nature.
—Arturo Conde, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
Country and rap, historically pitted against each other, have always been cousins, whose sounds have intertwined closely over recent years.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Pit against.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pit%20against. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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