knights 1 of 2

Definition of knightsnext
plural of knight

knights

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of knight
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Noun
  • Wilson is an heiress to the Holiday Inn hotel fortune and her husband has long been linked to the princes.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • Peyton, 27, showed small, delicate drawings of princes, aristocrats, historical figures, writers.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • What matters more to the biggest schools is that their teams have a chance to compete in what remains the best postseason in college sports and that they aren’t iced out by lower conference champions who earn automatic bids.
    Eddie Pells, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Brock led off the seventh with a single but Millikan sophomore Jade Torres stranded the tying run at first base to seal the Rams a 4-3 victory at Fullerton High in a clash of league champions preparing for the CIF-SS playoffs.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • The government commissions murals and sculptures for schools, libraries, and hospitals.
    John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The Environment Committee passed SB 457 in March, which requires distributors to manage their own container redemption programs and commissions a DEEP study of previous anti-fraud measures.
    Angela Eichhorst, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The Fitzgerald settlement ennobles neither side.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Silberman is one of South Florida’s oldest living World War II veterans, having served as a communications and decoding officer aboard the battleship USS Arkansas in the Pacific.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • Vegas is another experienced playoff team loaded with veterans.
    Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • The machinery lifts heavy pieces of concrete and rebar.
    Anas Baba, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • The decision lifts Louisiana’s need to have two majority-Black districts.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Gathering intel on recruits is similar to how Flaherty went about his job as a reporter.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2026
  • The nonprofit that recruits, trains, and supports foster families.
    Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 7 May 2026
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“Knights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knights. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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