Contend
Contend verb - To engage in a contest.
Both words in one sentence
- And so the three kingdoms contend with one another over the century, and heroes rise and fall in the strife, until the nation is finally reunified.And, as you'd expect from a pivotal work like this, it's managed to gather quite a collection of tropes.
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