Meaning of gladiator in English
(Definition of gladiator from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
gladiator | American Dictionary
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Uncanceled wrongs are done by gladiators to other gladiators and by the promoters and supporters of the contest to all the gladiators.
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The case for criminal prohibition is as compelling as ever, but the gladiators' consent has put that case beyond the reach of the political community.
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Viewed on balance, the interests of the gladiators are set back.
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Surely the most fundamental interests of the gladiators are put at enormous risk, and the potential gains very likely do not outweigh those risks.
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Feinberg replies that we find the case for criminal prohibition compelling because we are deeply skeptical about the claim that the gladiators' consent could be free and fully informed.
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I do not think we had in mind that there would be many exhausted gladiators on that body.
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I watched those two ancient gladiators clash over programme after programme, and found it difficult to decide which of them was talking greater nonsense.
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He is a gladiator of the finest sort.
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The lawyer is not a gladiator, but a prevention officer.
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One cannot raise gladiators, all-in wrestlers, or people on the kind of eggs sold in the shops today.
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He has spoken about rings, gloves, gladiators and conflicts.
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This fight has not been staged; there are no gladiators involved.
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This debate was billed in advance as a great clash of the gladiators over an issue of high principle.
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Why talk like a nation of gladiators when at this moment we could not hold out for half an hour in a nuclear war?
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There are not just the half dozen fashionable gladiators of a hundred years ago.
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