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
  • Jumper, who later helped create the Navy’s Top Gun fighter pilot school in Miramar, was at the center of the action.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Overnight July 6-7, 20 Israeli fighter jets dropped over 50 munitions on key Yemeni ports, including Hodeidah and the Ras Khatib power station.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The Keefe Commissary Network and its parent company Keefe Group were defendants alongside Tarrant County.
    Cody Copeland July 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2025
  • According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Gadd is unable to speak about the case for legal reasons despite not being named as a defendant.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Because the plaintiffs in the case against Meta didn’t do this, Chhabria ruled against them.
    Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
  • The case was filed in federal court in Rhode Island, and 24 states and Washington, D.C., are the plaintiffs.
    Stacey Barchenger, AZCentral.com, 14 July 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 20 Jul. 2025.

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