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as in beauties
a lovely woman
the cosmetics company wants a model who's a real knockout
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as in dreams
something very good of its kind
the band's new album is a knockout
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as in dolls
a physically attractive person
only a few of the show's cast members are real knockouts
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Recent Examples of knockouts
Nine out of 10 African teams qualified for knockouts, the most ever in a World Cup.
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Pj Green
july 1,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Austria, meanwhile, have returned to the World Cup after 28 years and to the knockouts after 44 years.
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Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
2 July 2026
Cape Verde is the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup knockouts.
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Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
But history is against the Americans, having never beaten a European side in the World Cup knockouts before.
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Mark Hodge,
NBC news,
1 July 2026
Some of those are out, others have impressively made it into the knockouts.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
The 28-year-old has seven decisions and three knockouts.
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Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Yesterday, the two co-hosts were joined by Germany who booked their spot in the knockouts with a dramatic last-gasp winner against Ivory Coast.
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Ben Church,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
Pj Green
july 1,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Austria, meanwhile, have returned to the World Cup after 28 years and to the knockouts after 44 years.
—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
2 July 2026
Cape Verde is the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup knockouts.
—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
But history is against the Americans, having never beaten a European side in the World Cup knockouts before.
—
Mark Hodge,
NBC news,
1 July 2026
Some of those are out, others have impressively made it into the knockouts.
—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
The 28-year-old has seven decisions and three knockouts.
—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Yesterday, the two co-hosts were joined by Germany who booked their spot in the knockouts with a dramatic last-gasp winner against Ivory Coast.
—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knockouts
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Cotton Candy Grapes These high-sugar green beauties really do taste like cotton candy.
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The best office chairs on Amazon can fix that, ranging from our favorite overall, Herman Miller’s Aeron Office Chair, to ergonomic beauties from Branch, Flexispot, and Haworth that come cosigned by AD staffers.
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In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
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The Sports Broadcasting Act includes a rule allowing blackouts of local games, which still applies to out-of-market packages sold by the leagues.
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As the nation turns 250 years old, USA TODAY decided to create a time capsule, not of items but of dreams Americans hold for the country’s future.
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Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.
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About 146 groups, made up of more than 1,400 participants, marched in the parade, with projects ranging from larger-than-life marionette dolls to squads of children in do-it-yourself costumes to mobile re-creations of LACMA’s most iconic art pieces.
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Bonnie herself has grown in subsequent sequels, and now Toy Story 5 finds her as a shy 8-year-old struggling to balance her affection for vintage dolls like Jessie with the shinier tech her peers prefer.
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The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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Little is yet known about the jewelry and its significance, but Gordon believes that the jewelry was once worn by the kings and queens of an ancient Khmer Empire that spanned Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, and existed for hundreds of years.
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In between languid lake swims and sensual forest escapades, old crushes surface and new anxieties rear their heads in this deft portrait of millennial disenchantment.
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And most importantly, nobody f---ing swims in it!
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The book is full of many such humdingers.
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There were tens of thousands of dollars sent to him, the complaint alleges, for things like dental work, a pickup truck, a motorcycle and to fund a legitimate social media career and future together.
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Flush with $46 billion to finish the wall after an infusion by Congress for immigration enforcement, CBP is inking tens of billions of dollars in contracts to build the wall and push along the president’s signature project.
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“Knockouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockouts. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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