skirmishing
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1. skirmishing - Noun
2. skirmishing - Verb
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of Skirmish
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After some skirmishing, Placidia and Aetius came to an agreement that established the political landscape of the Western Roman Empire for the next thirty years.
A new Royalist offensive in late 1643 saw skirmishing around Farnham between Waller's forces and Ralph Hopton 's Royalists, but these brief incursions into the western fringes of Surrey marked the limits of Royalist advances on the county.
By 30 March, less than two weeks after the Army's Montmartre rout, it began skirmishing with the National Guard in the outskirts of Paris.
However, it was a time of constant skirmishing in and around the Peloponnese.
The record-setting early vote — and legal skirmishing over how it will be counted — drew unsupported allegations of fraud from Trump, who refused to guarantee he would honor the election’s result.
The attack got within convert of the bridge before being stopped; skirmishing continued throughout the night.