knighting

verb

present participle of knight
as in lifting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knighting
  1. lifting
  2. commissioning
  3. congratulating
  4. improving
  5. celebrating
  6. applauding
  7. commending
  8. ennobling
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  • Proponents say the workout’s minimal movements, like short sets of squats and lifting light weights, leave them with soreness but also increase their muscle.
    — Diana Anos, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • This mission will attempt to place a batch of CubeSats into orbit after lifting off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Definition of lifting
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  • The country converted Russia’s T-7 tokamak into the HT-7 in the 1990s before commissioning EAST in 2006 as the world’s first fully superconducting tokamak.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • And Ben Stiller went the third-party route by commissioning a pair of Nike Force 1 Lows.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
Definition of commissioning
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  • All participating children receive certificates, congratulating them on participation or meeting those goals.
    — Chelsea Cirruzzo, STAT, 2 July 2026
  • On Saturday, Jeffries took a step in that direction by congratulating New York City's Democratic nominees, including Valdez and Chevalier.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
Definition of congratulating
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  • Pogačar is only improving as a rider, a scary proposition for man with his extraordinary palmares.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Higgins also says that improving resilience will mean changing the city’s building code to allow innovative new technology.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of improving
Verb
  • In Glacier View, Alaska, about two hours north of Anchorage, celebrating America’s Independence Day makes fireworks a thing of the past.
    — Carmela Asmar, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • For much of the country, the 250th anniversary of independence on Saturday is a time for celebrating and debating the country's birth.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of celebrating
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  • Most players who have toiled in the minor league system debut in front of applauding friends and family.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The sea of yellow applauding the efforts of the dejected Brazilian players who milled about, seemingly unwilling to accept that a match that took so long to really get going was over so quickly.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of applauding
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  • Western, for his part, had by this time recovered something of his usual bluster, and began again upon the subject of Blifil, commending his estate and his family with great earnestness, as though these considerations alone ought to have settled the matter long since.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
  • Kennedy then mentioned her daughter and became emotional while commending her work.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
Definition of commending
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  • Mary Kay could have no doubt that selling was an ennobling endeavor, since God Himself seemed to be endorsing it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Teeth or Pants, the show has a way of both laughing at and ennobling its own failures.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Definition of ennobling
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