Pitting in example sentence

What started as a revolution in the eighteenth-century meaning of the term is becoming a reproduction of the religious wars that ravaged Europe from 1524 to 1648, pitting Catholics and Protestants against each other in the same way that Sunnis and Shia are pitted against each other today.

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And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this pitting of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.

The War of Independence impacted upon us terribly, pitting family against family, neighbor against neighbor.

They're also pitting teenagers and their parents in a fundamentally unwinnable fight against their own bodies.

John Henry's legend is a part of a long historical narrative pitting humanity versus technology.

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