pitched

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The administration's decision may have marked a new phase of what has been described as a pitched battle between the Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency.

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  1. Fully prepared for beforehand, and deliberately entered upon by both sides with formal array: used specifically of a battle. In the mean-time, two Armies flye in, represented with foure swords and bucklers, and then what harde heart will not receiue it for a pitched fielde? Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. In five pitched fields he well maintained The honoured place his worth obtained. Scott, Rokeby, iv. 16. The event of a pitched battle won gave the rebellion and the Confederate government a standing and a sudden respectability before foreign powers it had hardly dared hope for. The Century, XXXVI. 288.
  2. Sloped; sloping: as, a high-pitched roof. Wall fixtures … are equally serviceable where roofs are pitched as when they are flat. T. D. Lockwood, Elect., Mag., and Teleg., p. 157.

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