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verb

Definition of joustnext
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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noun

as in duel

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Recent Examples of joust
Verb
The candidates have jousted recently after a public poll by Quinnipiac University poll showed Lamont ahead by 17 percentage points and another survey by Sacred Heart University placed Lamont ahead by 14 points. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026 Niners are going from clobbering the preseason Super Bowl favorite to facing a team jousting with Cleveland for consensus worst in the league. — Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
During jousts, Bruce targets the head, wings, beak and legs of his opponents in close contact without making physical contact with them. — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2026 Attending a joust is one of the quintessential renaissance festival experiences. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for joust
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joust
  1. fight
  2. duel
  3. battle
  4. confrontation
  5. wrestle
  6. face-off
  7. fistfight
  8. slugfest
Verb
  • For now, Smith and her team are on the road as the Valkyries fight to take home the WNBA Championship Trophy.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • My school years passed in a sliding door moment, and all there was to behold in that frame was a young man who had to physically fight to be allowed to be someone else—himself.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of fight
Noun
  • Snell opened the seventh by walking Andrew Vaughn and losing an 11-pitch duel to Bauers, who won the battle with a two-run homer.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The anticipated pitchers' duel between Yamamoto and Henderson didn't work out according to plan.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of duel
Verb
  • The fire broke out at the Eagle’s Nest in the Bavarian Alps on Friday evening, and firefighters battled the flames against strong winds.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Republicans are battling to keep their top-of-the-ticket foothold in a state that will, once more, stand at the center of the presidential campaign.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of battle
Noun
  • Last year, a Senatobia officer threatened a Black woman with a Taser, pulling her from her car and onto the ground and arresting her during a confrontation over an accessible parking space in the same Walmart lot where Kohen was shot.
    — SOPHIE BATES, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The danger is that Ethiopia’s internal fighting, its confrontation with Eritrea and regional disputes over ports and water could fuel one another.
    — KHALED KAZZIHA, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of confrontation
Verb
  • The novel forces readers to wrestle with the uncomfortable fact that Chrissie would rather have two dead children than one who isn’t part of the dominant class.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Authorities said another teacher threw her phone at the attacker and then tackled him and wrestled with him for control of the weapon, likely saving lives before the shooter was shot by a father who followed him into the building.
    — Gene Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of wrestle
Noun
  • As for battery life, the MacBook Air wins most of the face-offs here, but loses to some key rivals, namely the HP Googlebook 14, by a fair margin.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Despite pledging to participate in multiple debates, Becerra brushed aside several invitations, agreeing to just a solitary one-hour face-off against Hilton on CNN in late September.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of face-off
Noun
  • Despite another week of next to nothing offensively early on, the Broncos dragged the Niners into a fistfight.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026
  • When the race goes green on Sunday, Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar — protagonists in a late accident at Bristol and the fistfight that followed — will be subjects of intense scrutiny.
    — Reid Spencer, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of fistfight
Noun
  • Sweden loses key piece The first half was a sloppy slugfest as both teams tried to use their physicality to assume control.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • The Republican race for governor between Rick Jackson and Burt Jones has been nothing short of a slugfest.
    — Shannon McCaffrey, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
Definition of slugfest

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