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firefight
noun 2verb 1
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noun
1
A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.
2
An intense argument.
Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
verb
1
To engage in a firefight.
His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
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Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.
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Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual
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His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
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