Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knouted
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Team engineers have been beavering away, clawing back downforce slashed in the new rule definitions for how cars need to look and behave.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Police said the 30-year-old victim was stabbed in the back and slashed in the neck.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Trump has also repeatedly lashed out over the state’s incarceration of Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of state felonies related to her attempts to prove discredited election conspiracies shared by the president.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
9 Jan. 2026
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The California economy was lashed all year by tumult in Hollywood, which has been hit by a slowdown in filming as well as media and entertainment industry consolidation.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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In addition to the new visa, last year Bulgaria also switched to the euro and joined the Schengen Zone — a group of 29 European countries with open borders.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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New York switched to Chicago just before midnight, and Chance the Rapper did one song and did the countdown to midnight.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Cherry already has a soft spot for Biancani, never mind the grueling conditioning, including countless hours of running that whipped the Hornets into shape.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Ovechkin gathered the puck on his forehand, quickly turned it over to his backhand and whipped it into the net.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2025
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That hide is shipped overseas, usually to Asia, to be tanned into leather.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
25 Dec. 2025
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He was also tanned, and hadn’t had a chance to fix a missing lower tooth.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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These scourged the poor harder than anyone else.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Giants followed that up by getting thrashed by the Eagles in Philadelphia this past Sunday.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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And that all came into play in Game 1, as the Jays thrashed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-4, at a raucous Rogers Centre on Friday night.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Kickboxing robots flailed wildly before falling over, and some sprinters crashed into rivals.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Aug. 2025
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On Sunday, Merrill flailed at two sliders in the dirt from Tyler Glasnow before looking at a third down the middle for strike three to strand a runner in the first inning.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Knouted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knouted. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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