knockouts

noun

plural of knockout
1
as in beauties
a lovely woman the cosmetics company wants a model who's a real knockout

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2
as in dazes
a temporary state of unconsciousness a splash of cold water brought the boxer out of his knockout

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3
as in dreams
something very good of its kind the band's new album is a knockout

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4
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 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
  1. beauties
  2. blackouts
  3. dreams
  4. dolls
  5. queens
  6. trances
  7. humdingers
  8. tens
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
Definition of beauties
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  • But California hasn’t seen rolling blackouts since that year in large part due to its massive increase in battery energy storage, Seeley said.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Massimo Di Odoardo, vice president of gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie, is also confident that Europe will avoid a dire scenario of energy shortages and blackouts.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of blackouts
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
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • The only other guests were our daughter’s dolls and stuffed animals.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In South Korea, more than 12,000 AI companion dolls are already reportedly in use.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of dolls
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  • With guest judge Brooke Shields in the house, the queens played the celebrity-impersonation competition with a twist.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Clean water and advanced medicine, for example, are now commonplace across much of the developed world despite once being a luxury even kings and queens couldn’t reliably access.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of queens
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
Definition of trances
Noun
  • The book is full of many such humdingers.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of humdingers
Noun
  • The rates Denver has been paying the private law firm are substantially higher than averages reported by Clio, a legal technology company that tracks billing data from tens of thousands of legal professionals.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Raman said the city has lost tens of thousands of film jobs under Bass and said Los Angeles needs a more aggressive film tax credit to compete with other states.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026
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“Knockouts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockouts. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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