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What is the adjective for agones?

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agonistic
  1. Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
  2. (zoology, anthropology) Characterised by conflict or hostility.
  3. (rhetoric) Argumentative, combative.
  4. (pharmacology) Pertaining to an agonist.
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    1. “Urine-borne chemical cues influence the progression and outcome of agonistic encounters in lobsters and crayfish.”
      “To do so is to embrace an agonistic romanticism of perpetually unfulfilled longing and desire.”
      “Baudrillard contends, through an adaptation of Mauss, that all systems regulate themselves through dual, agonistic movements.”
agonistical
  1. Striving to overcome in argument; combative.
  2. Struggling to achieve effect; strained and contrived.
  3. Relating to contests, originally of the ancient Greeks.
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