Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for KO'ing
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The day shift finally starts taking group photos, knocking out their letters rapidly, and moving on to task 4 simultaneously.—
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
16 June 2026 -
The Jubail petrochemical and industrial complex in Saudi Arabia is offline, knocking out a key world reservoir of resin.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
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Beteille said his group was waved through a metal detector before another security employee pushed them forward, knocking over part of it.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Before 2014, Major League Baseball runners trying to score often tried knocking over a catcher who was blocking the plate.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
19 May 2026
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Storms that moved in Wednesday afternoon, downing trees and damaging some buildings, were expected to be followed by more wild weather in the evening.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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Workers started industrial action at all three Inpex facilities last week, downing tools for four hours a day among other measures.—
Sing Yee Ong,
Bloomberg,
8 June 2026
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Others chided Pattie Gonia for leveling the accusation against Patagonia, a company considered by many as a leader in sustainability, without painting a full picture of the case.—
Brittany Peterson,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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That might be done by filling it with debris from hospital construction and graded earth or by leveling it with parking structures that would support an elevated ground floor.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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An OpenAI reasoning model recently overturned a conjecture Paul Erdős posed in 1946, toppling an eighty-year assumption in combinatorial geometry by importing machinery from algebraic number theory — two fields with no obvious reason to meet.—
Christian Catalini,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The Regis Jesuit Raiders captured the 5A state championship, toppling Arvada West 5-3 for their first crown in seven years.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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“KO'ing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/KO%27ing. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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