Thesaurus results for KNEES

knees 1 of 2

noun

plural of knee

as in hands

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knees

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verb

present tense third-person singular of knee

as in butts

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Recent Examples of knees

Noun

Strengthening the muscles in your legs and around your knees can help reduce knee pain. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 8 June 2026 Durant bumped knees with a teammate during Wednesday’s practice in Houston and couldn’t move his knee well during pregame testing, Udoka said. — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026 Lower both knees until the back knee is close to the floor. — Jim Diehl Cscs, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for knees

Noun

The video shows four deputies running after Garza along Interstate 10 in Palm Springs, with Garza facing the deputies several times while holding an object in his hands.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Alaska’s bid for statehood, in the late nineteen-fifties, was in part a matter of keeping the hands of Seattle businessmen off local salmon stocks.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of hands

Verb

The Royals hope to get under the 40-man roster threshold before the 2027 offseason kicks into high gear after the World Series.

— Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Netflix , Tesla and Club names Meta Platforms and Capital One are among the companies set to report quarterly results in the coming days, as third-quarter earnings season kicks into high gear.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of kicks

Verb

Did join Kylian Mbappe and Ferenc Puskas as one of only three players to score a European Cup knockout-phase brace against Barcelona at Camp Nou, which bumps him up the list a bit.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
The department bumps the call to a higher-priority response (Priority 1) due to the potential for violence.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026

Definition of bumps

Noun

Walker hit his seventh homer with two swings remaining and his eighth on the next swing to earn bonus swings.

— Dan Gelston, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
The swings have a black metal frame, black metal swing arms, a fabric canopy and a padded brown seat cushion, the report states.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 May 2026

Definition of swings

Verb

The film’s pick-me jabs at humor are frankly, flatly unfunny and grating, twisting the film at times into a perverse, almost self-aware treatise on tweeness.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026
Rather than immediately running toward his destination on the opposite side of the field, Jefferson jabs at the defender to create even more separation.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026