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.

   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, →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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