pit against

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pit against (third-person singular simple present pits against, present participle pitting against, simple past and past participle pitted against)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To set in opposition to someone or something else.

   Synonym: set against

   Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final.

   • 2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Revised Manchester timetable due in December 2022”, in RAIL, number 942, page 27:

     This prompted January's timetable consultation with options that, according to Chester ^{[sic – meaning Cheshire]} West and Chester Councillor Andrew Cooper last March, pitted councils against each other.

   • 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Some board members believed that Mr. Altman was trying to pit them against each other. Last month, they decided to act.

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