as in to fight
of knights in the Middle Ages
to engage in battle on horseback with lances
The knights jousted against each other.
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Recent Examples of joust
Marc Levy, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
The megalodon would join Maryland’s other state symbols, including the Baltimore oriole (state bird), jousting (state sport), and walking (state exercise).
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
Heading into a road trip that will send them to Dallas to stare down the Stars and then to Vegas for a joust with the Golden Knights, the Ducks’ current four-game winning streak matches their strongest surge from all of last season.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 5 Nov. 2025
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Verb
In Oregon, which passed a law to protect smaller ratepayers from data centers’ power costs, a consumer advocacy group is jousting with the state’s largest utility, Portland General Electric, over its plan on how to do that.
—Marc Levy, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
The megalodon would join Maryland’s other state symbols, including the Baltimore oriole (state bird), jousting (state sport), and walking (state exercise).
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
The two creatively joust as the story changes: Juliet does not kill herself, but rather runs off to Paris with her nurse and a bestie.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
Heading into a road trip that will send them to Dallas to stare down the Stars and then to Vegas for a joust with the Golden Knights, the Ducks’ current four-game winning streak matches their strongest surge from all of last season.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 5 Nov. 2025
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The meetings come as the Republican administration seeks to leverage military assets to restore dominance in the hemisphere while now also fighting a war in Iran.—
JOSHUA GOODMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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These are people who fought alongside American troops during our last forever war.—
Shawn Vandiver,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Two top City Section baseball teams, El Camino Real and San Fernando, faced off Friday in a pitcher’s duel that went eight innings.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Both teams seem to be settling into a duel between two aces.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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At Oman's Port of Salalah, firefighters battled a blaze Wednesday at fuel storage tanks after days of Iranian attacks, according to the Oman News Agency.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Minnesota girls state basketball tournament has arrived, with 32 of the state’s top teams descending on the Twin Cities to battle it out for state supremacy.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
11 Mar. 2026
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Analysts say intelligence sharing would represent a low-risk way for Russia to support Iran while avoiding direct confrontation with the United States, even as Moscow balances in the region.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Mar. 2026
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Ideological opposition turned to proxy confrontation through Iran's support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and for Hezbollah, which fought Israel during its long occupation of southern Lebanon.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
8 Mar. 2026
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His villains were flamboyant, but Bruce was mournful, reluctant — no onscreen superhero has more palpably wrestled with not wanting to be a superhero.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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The man who threw the device had another one on him as cops jumped on him and wrestled him to the ground.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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With Colorado on a power play, MacKinnon took a cross-ice pass from Brock Nelson near the right face-off circle.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2026
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Much of the credit goes to the defense and to Andrew Golden, a junior who handles face-offs.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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In a Senate hearing, in 2023, Mullin challenged the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien, who was giving testimony, to a fistfight.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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When a screaming match nearly ended in a fistfight—the director was famously into drugs, booze, and gambling at the time—Toberoff quit.—
Tom Dotan,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
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The Yankees started their slugfest in style against the Rays, as Judge’s big fly traveled 429 feet to the batter’s eye at Steinbrenner Field.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
20 Aug. 2025
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Hunter Henry, Austin Hooper, Jack Westover Notes: It’s been a slow, ugly slugfest among the backup tight ends to see who can win the No. 3 job.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
9 Aug. 2025
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