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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as in duel
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Recent Examples of joust
Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
Sony Interactive Entertainment Two blimps jousting overhead Helldivers 2 is explicitly multiplayer, and the action takes place on Sony's servers.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2024
The Terror Squad leader acknowledged that Cole had valid reasons for not staying in the lyrical joust, but his way of stepping away was not good for him in the long run.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 31 July 2024
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That, in a nutshell, explains why Californians have been jousting over water for the state’s entire 174-year history.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
Sony Interactive Entertainment Two blimps jousting overhead Helldivers 2 is explicitly multiplayer, and the action takes place on Sony's servers.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
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The verbal joust will touch on a range of issues but none may be more important than the economy, which often ranks as the top priority among voters.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2024
The Terror Squad leader acknowledged that Cole had valid reasons for not staying in the lyrical joust, but his way of stepping away was not good for him in the long run.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 31 July 2024
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Prisoners will keep fighting fires, too, with convicts able to win early-release credits on the fire lines.Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Tyson has not fought professionally since losing to Kevin McBride in the sixth round in 2005.Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Cowboys’ biggest deliveries were notched during their Week 3 duel with Baltimore, which averaged 27.29 million viewers on Fox, trailing only the previous week’s Bengals-Chiefs broadcast on CBS (27.87 million) for bragging rights as the season’s top linear-TV draw.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Dodgers won the first two in L.A., Game 2 featuring the duel between rookie Bob Welch and Reggie Jackson.Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024
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The blazes in the Northeast have claimed at least one life: Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old New York Parks employee, was killed Saturday by a falling tree while battling a fire in Sterling Forest, on the border of New York and New Jersey.Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Baker Mayfield had just 116 yards for the Bucs and got sacked twice, including on a third-down play in the fourth quarter by Nick Bosa, who battled through a right-hip injury.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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But after Israel responded in a relatively muted way, both countries moved on from the confrontation.Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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Police have not said what the confrontation was about, but according to the documents, Hue allegedly pulled a pistol from his waistband, pointed it at the students and told them to run.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Two men wrestled with a tree trunk wrapped in trash bags.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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At the same time, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) wrestled with personal struggles away from the ranch.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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This is a talky chamber piece of philosophical face-offs, debate duels and wordy warfare, though the outcomes remain just as harrowing.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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But toward the end of the evening, things picked up in a big way, ultimately leaving us high from a face-off that that was a genuine knockout.Charlie Mason, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
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The pugnacious owner even claimed to have gotten into a fistfight with Dodgers fans in an elevator in the Hyatt Wilshire Hotel in 1981 after the Dodgers won three straight in L.A. to take the lead in the World Series 3-2.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Dodger Stadium and its grounds also have a long history of physical altercations, including fistfights between drunken fans, fan-on-fan attacks that left people with severe injuries, and beatings by security personnel.Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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One night after the Red Sox outlasted the Orioles in a 12-10 slugfest, the teams battled through a pitchers’ duel for five innings.Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
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Anyone tempted to take the over should keep in mind that most of Penn State's biggest games in recent years have been slugfests (21-7 over Illinois earlier this year, 28-13 over Wisconsin last week, not to mention last year's 20-12 loss to the Buckeyes and 24-15 loss to Michigan).Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Joust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joust. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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