Verb (used with object) : to pit cherries for a pie.    From Dictionary.com. 

The latter offers a prospect but it calls pitting against Najib's powerful machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Brick in the Wall] Reference

The pitting is the size of a mini crater and the uneven texture brings to mind the pockmarked faces of '40s movie villains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candle Experiment Gone Awry] Reference

What conservatives feed on is the idea of pitting "us" against the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

I never did understand why people like the idea of pitting Netscape against Digg.    From Wordnik.com.  [AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone] Reference

Janelle did a good job in pitting houseguests against each other this week, and she’s always been strong at the challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [BB6 – With but a week to go] Reference

These back-to-back House and Senate votes were among the first of what will be many roll calls pitting Congress against the president in the conduct of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [William E. Jackson Jr.: Legislating An End to the War: Congress Must Not Be Hustled] Reference

I think the important distinction here is the one between predatory behavior and fighting (especially "pitting").    From Wordnik.com.  [When eagles go bad, one more time... part II] Reference

The peel has a tendency to crease and suffers stress-related condition known as Pineapple 'pitting'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Nodules are UNDER the skin, and if an infection is spread under the skin, this can cause a disfiguring scar, also called "pitting" or "pockmarking".    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

To counter his arguments Senator Boxer quotes resolutions by two prominent black groups which Mr. Alford took as "pitting" him against fellow black associations and.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama and British leader Cameron say critical to get Afghanistan war right this year] Reference

To counter his arguments Senator Boxer quotes resolutions by two prominent black groups which Mr. Alford took as "pitting" him against fellow black associations and "racial".    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama and British leader Cameron say critical to get Afghanistan war right this year] Reference

The subject: the trade dispute pitting Boeing against Airbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Blowout] Reference

And he did not invent the strategy of pitting suppliers against one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosn's Road To Nissan] Reference

Oct. 11-12Biden reopens the hearings, pitting Hill's accusations against Thomas's denials.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ticking Time Bomb] Reference

This is a war of ideas, pitting two different notions of the good society against each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Against Jihadism] Reference

But many Saudis -- and certainly many Egyptians -- are leery of a war pitting Arab against Arab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will He Blink?] Reference

Record water lows in the West and Midwest are pitting neighbors against H2O-guzzling golf resorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water: Teed Off At Courses] Reference

This race against time, pitting insouciance against investment, will determine Blair's political future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Teflon Tony's Days Numbered?] Reference

Cambodia has never fully faced its past in part because of this -- the danger of pitting neighbor against neighbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing A Grisly Past] Reference

But let's face it: when pitting human beings against forces of either nature or technology, myth is what's it's all about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man, Machine And The Myth] Reference

Curiously, "Girl, Interrupted" is being sold as if it were a '60s movie, pitting free-spirited crazies against uptight doctors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blue Christmas] Reference

They are at the front line of a new geopolitical conflict pitting Turkey and Western interests against an age-old rival, Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battleground Bosporus] Reference

ABC News is pitting several veterans, including Charles Gibson, against each other in a runoff to succeed the late Peter Jennings.    From Wordnik.com.  [News as a Contact Sport] Reference

And both the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals were bores, pitting powerhouse Lakers and Red Wings against game but overmatched challengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best In Sports] Reference

His race against John Kennedy was a classic of the genre, pitting two immensely able young politicians in the tightest of election years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference

Correa did much the same in Ecuador, pitting the indigenous majority of Quito and the rural regions against the middle classes of Guayaquil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feint Left] Reference

Gore is almost certain to run in 2004, and the string of corporate scandals pitting the people against the powerful entitles him to say, "I told you so.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Captiol Letter: Rotten Ceos] Reference

The long-running conflict pitting successive governments in Bogota against a Marxist guerrilla movement makes the issue a natural fit for the assistant secretary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Man For Latam?] Reference

The "Old Europe versus New Europe" debate is no longer geopolitical, pitting new EU members from the east against old-guard West Europeans over relations with America.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pyrrhic Victory?] Reference

During one bloody afternoon two days ago Eldoret was transformed from a sleepy farming town into the site of an ethnic skirmish pitting the Kalenjin tribe against the Kikuyu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribal Tensions] Reference

Let's face it, in a race pitting four "fiscally conservative" GOP hopefuls, the only way to distinguish yourself might indeed be to write, "I'm a husband, father and Eagle Scout.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: The Candidates] Reference