as in to fight
of knights in the Middle Ages
to engage in battle on horseback with lances
The knights jousted against each other.
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Recent Examples of joust
Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
There’s ample room in its four seasons for peasant rebellions, Henry’s debilitating leg injury, jousting matches, and church reform as contact sport amid the pulpy erotic drama.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
The early legal jousts over the executive order could also be a prelude to other efforts, in Congress or via a constitutional amendment, to reform birthright citizenship.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Verb
That’s a description befitting what essentially has become a show propelled by an offbeat range of worldwide entertainment outlets jousting for position to ask often-inane questions of the biggest stars.
—Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
There’s ample room in its four seasons for peasant rebellions, Henry’s debilitating leg injury, jousting matches, and church reform as contact sport amid the pulpy erotic drama.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
Noun
The pair spectacularly fell out at the back end of last year, amid a series of less than edifying verbal jousts.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
The early legal jousts over the executive order could also be a prelude to other efforts, in Congress or via a constitutional amendment, to reform birthright citizenship.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joust
Verb
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Holland has been one of the more active UFC competitors since losing that contest by decision, fighting at middleweight and welterweight.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Six engines, three water tenders, one dozer and one hand crew are all continuing to fight the fire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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The game had the look of a pitchers’ duel going into the ninth inning with first-place Philadelphia leading 1-0 thanks to a home run from Trea Turner leading off the game.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
24 May 2025
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May departed with the Dodgers trailing 1-0 and was initially in line to be the hard-luck loser of a pitchers’ duel with Burnes, but Hernandez changed that with one swing.—
Kyle Glaser,
Oc Register,
22 May 2025
Verb
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The Royals are battling the Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians for the divisional crown.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2025
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What To Know Gatwa becomes only the second actor never to face the Daleks during his tenure in the lead role—joining Paul McGann, whose Eighth Doctor battled them only in audio dramas.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 June 2025
Noun
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In the ensuing violent confrontation, her son is killed.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
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The tense confrontation was the latest flashpoint between the Trump administration and Chicago over immigration policies — a potentially ominous sign for what’s ahead for the nation’s third-largest city, which has long been in the president’s crosshairs.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
Verb
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As in Denver, cities across the country are wrestling with how to restore the pre-pandemic hustle and bustle to recharge what has historically been a crucial economic engine.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
31 May 2025
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The guards wrestle him to the ground and In-ho watches.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
31 May 2025
Noun
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But Lijn’s mechanized drama is a resolutely feminist one, a face-off between two cyborgs who both conjure and complicate the archetypes of the nature goddess and the murderous woman.—
Marina Isgro,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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The 28-year-old owns a large 6-foot-3 frame, has averaged 54 points per season over three years in Boston, and has recently evolved into an above-average face-off man.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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The Dark Ages is more like a line dance that accidentally ends up in a fistfight.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Sasuke and Naruto’s battle in the Final Valley (and its sequel in Shippuden) is one of the most impassioned fistfights ever drawn.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Game 1 of the NHL's Western Conference Finals was a figurative and literal slugfest, with nine goals scored and a massive brawl to end the contest, with the Dallas Stars beating the Edmonton Oilers 6-3.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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Harker 39, Crystal Springs Uplands 39 Harker won a defensive slugfest as the Eagles edged Crystal Springs.—
Nathan Canilao,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Joust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joust. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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