Synonyms for tug-of-war
tug-of-war

Princeton's WordNet

1. tug-of-warnoun

   any hard struggle between equally matched groups

2. tug-of-warnoun

   a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses

Matched Categories

1. • Athletic Contest
   • Conflict

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1. List of paraphrases for "tug-of-war":

   give-and-take, horse-trading, wrangling

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1. Sam Khater:

   Mortgage rates remained volatile due to the tug of war between inflationary pressures and a clear slowdown in economic growth.

2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   The magnitude of Turkey’s social earthquake is much greater than that of the tectonic one, there is a tug of war between the government and the opposition, and it seems that the winner is going to be unknown until the very end of the elections.

3. Pete Buttigieg:

   The conversation in Washington has always been about the next fight, the next hill, the next bill -- so much so that I think some folks seeing the tug of war over' Build Back Better' kind of lost track of the fact that the infrastructure law passed, it is important for them to know that that this bridge over the rail yard in Chattanooga that we just announced is coming to you because the President's vision and ability to work with Congress, both sides of the aisle, to get funding for this.

4. Erik Brattberg:

   Europeans are under no illusion that the US is going to take a radically different approach to China -- Donald Trump has permanently changed the narrative on that, while they are relieved that the White House is going to be more predictable on China and keen to coordinate with partners, they are still going to resist becoming a chip in the Beijing-DC tug of war.

5. Marshal Cohen:

   There is a tug-of-war between the consumer's desire to buy what they want, and the need to make concessions based on the higher prices hitting their wallets.