brawler

as in fighter
a person who takes part in a dispute every couple has marital problems, but those two are heavyweight brawlers in a seriously dysfunctional relationship

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Noun
  • The warship was seen conducting missile loading and flight operations with F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jets.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • In the last decade or so, the prevalent strain is fighters not merely driven by their fathers but actually trained by them.
    Mark Kriegel June 4, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • In that joint filing, the lawyers for the defendants said the Trump order only serves to make their case stronger, reinforcing their arguments that such claims are preempted by both the U.S. Constitution and federal law and must be dismissed.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The trial for seven of the eight defendants began in March, with the eighth due to be tried by jury after the initial proceedings finish.
    Cecilia Domínguez, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • But the dirty little secret of the plaintiff’s bar is that the injured plaintiffs are not receiving most of these shock verdicts.
    Robert Tyson, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
  • But in the filing Thursday, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Uthmeier went beyond expressing his views about the temporary restraining order.
    Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Lee is sixty-one years old, a scrapper with a potent backstory.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
  • Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The Jay Treaty asked the disputants merely to start a process leading to the appointment of arbitrators qualified to decide their disputes fairly and finally.
    Tom Bell, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • However, if the harassment or dispute is simply two neighbors being un-neighborly toward each other, the HOA’s best response may be to offer a volunteer board member to meet with the disputants to try to host a discussion between them.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Brawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brawler. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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