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Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

Other feminist sites have championed objectifying men in tit-for-tat fashion as empowering women.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style—and they tended to be funny.

This series of tit-for-tat bombings has created the most violent and volatile dynamic in Lebanon since the end of the civil war.

Since then, we've been locked in an escalating tit for tat war in which the loser is our increasingly empty federal court system.

I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

Our ears were deafened by the sharp rat-tat-tat of the machine guns, and by our own frantic anti-aircraft fire.

And yet the one is as good as the other: pass for pass, tit for tat, a Roland for an Oliver.

That's why I don't mind tackling cabmen—they sit all day, and all they've got to say is 'rat-tat,' and they've done.

In a few minutes we were replying in volume, and the rat-tat-tats of the machine-guns on either side were continuous.