Contest
Contest verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.
Fight for and contest are semantically related. in compete for topic. In some cases you can use "Fight for" instead a verb "Contest".
Fight for
Both terms in one sentence
- In anger, he enters himself and the Four in the Contest of Champions — a competition which forces you to fight for your life and the lives of your race, under the eye of the Grandmaster.
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Hypocritical Humor: Saving face, Emitai claims to have lost the fight on purpose against "some kids" in the Contest, when, actually, he tried to convince those kids to throw the fight for him!
Source: Video Game / Breath of Fire III - To everybody's surprise, Barbedo's friendly enough to Team Aurabolt when they meet him, handing over the Star Badge animating him without any fuss, agrees to a fight for his ship and takes his defeat to Tiny in a drinking contest with good humor.
Source: Fan Fic / Brave New World
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Fight for and Contest. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/fight_for
Contest & Fight for. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/fight_for>.
Fight for or Contest. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/fight_for.
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