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Recent Examples of knight
Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Put another way, if Nippon Steel’s purchase is blocked there’s little evidence that another white American knight awaits to do for U.S. Steel what Nippon intends to.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
And at the end of that year, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
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Brienne of Tarth The most honorable knight in Westeros doesn't have a bad bone in her body.
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Other notable names given honors this iteration include Gareth Southgate, former manager of England’s national football team, and London mayor Sadiq Khan, who were both knighted in the New Year Honors.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for knight
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Led by the crown prince, the Saudi Public Investment Fund reportedly invested $2 billion in Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's private equity firm after Mr. Trump left the White House in 2021.—
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The crown prince lives in exile until this day, unable to return to his home country of Iran.—
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At the White House in 2018, Mr. Trump honored NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. and Furniture Row Racing.—
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When the race was suspended, defending champion William Byron was leading the pack under caution flags.—
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His wife commissioned Briscoe to build No. 14 Courtland Place in 1920, after his death.—
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Bayezid also commissioned Timurid poets such as Nava’i to write original works in Turkish.—
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There are also concerns among defense experts about the effectiveness of Taiwan’s reservist training and the military’s slow progress in transitioning to asymmetric warfare – a strategy that focuses on smaller, harder-to-detect weapons like drones and portable missiles.—
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The rescued include untold cats and dogs, goats and fish, and, according to the officer, Army reservist Jimmy Garcia, on Monday in the Pacific Palisades, arachnids.—
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At one point, Musk lifted his son on his shoulders.—
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Those two should also help lift the club’s dismal infield defense.—
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Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities.—
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The mud-slinging scene occurred as thousands more Spanish soldiers, national police officers, and Civil Guard gendarmes arrived, or are set to arrive, at the disaster sites.—
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Founded in 1996, ZERO Prostate Cancer has been dedicated to improving and saving lives affected by prostate cancer through advocacy, education, awareness and support.—
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This data is used to improve the program’s overall effectiveness.—
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Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.—
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.—
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“Knight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knight. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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