knockouts

plural of knockout
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as in dazes
a temporary state of unconsciousness a splash of cold water brought the boxer out of his knockout

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of knockouts Headlining the event, Gustavo Trujillo defends his BKB Heavyweight title against Mark O'Neil, bringing an impressive 8-0 promotional record with all first-round knockouts. Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Michael Carrick and his coaching staff have spent pre-season moulding the playing squad into a unit capable of competing on four fronts and making a deep run into the Champions League knockouts. Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Malawi lost its final group match to Zambia 2-1 on Wednesday, but secured the group win with six points and a head-to-head tiebreaker over Nigeria, who also qualified for the knockouts. Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026 Congo also advanced beyond the group stage and pushed England before eventually losing, while Curaçao was still in with a chance of making the knockouts going into its final group match. James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 Unlike traditional combat sports, the competition was designed to evaluate a broader range of robotic capabilities rather than simply determining a winner through knockouts. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026 Goals from Breel Embolo and Dan Ndoye either side of halftime then comfortably saw the Swiss past Algeria in the Round of 32 and marked the nation’s first win in the knockouts since 1938. Ben Church, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knockouts
Noun
  • One of the beauties of living in the Midwest is not having to go far for unique and exciting family getaways.
    Rashad Alexander August 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026
  • These color-changing beauties only mate once in their entire lives, so the pressure is on to fend off the competition to find a female.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But they are also used ubiquitously in hospitals to help supply power in blackouts, in chemical plants to control temperature and pressure to avoid explosions and in elevators and trains to control speed.
    Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Fuel shortages this year have extended electricity cuts, but blackouts have been common on the island.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • For many people, the drawers full of sweets in the Brittany Mahomes video are the stuff of dreams.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Too close to the source and our dreams will be burned to ashes by the needs and personality of the host itself.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The dolls and books, which depict 9- and 10-year-olds, became part of daily life for millions of American girls.
    Tara Strauch, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Most store shelves were filled with fashion dolls and products focused on beauty and appearance.
    Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The idea came from architect Hal Hayes, who was inspired bythe Great Pyramid of Giza, where a pharaoh built a row of smaller pyramids alongside it for his queens, as Hayes told the Fire Island Pines Historical Society.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Cabins come in four different configurations, with either one queen bed or two queens bunked on top of each other—the latter would be great for small families—and have a maximum capacity of four guests.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Unlike in Cutud, participants are mostly female faith healers adhering not to vows but to mystic trances and possession.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • The book is full of many such humdingers.
    Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • The program has since expanded to more than 50 countries, and families have completed tens of millions of trips through teen accounts since the accounts were introduced, according to the company.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
  • At altitudes of tens of kilometers above Earth, temperatures and atmospheric pressure can differ dramatically from conditions at ground level.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Knockouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockouts. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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