knock out
Example Sentences
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Briton Oliver Bearman, so impressive in the first two races, was knocked out in the first session, while at the back the Cadillac team convincingly beat struggling Aston Martin for the first time.
From BBC
Australia is one of the world’s top three LNG exporters, behind Qatar, where strikes have knocked out about one-fifth of the world’s LNG supplies.
After knocking out an electron from the neon atom using soft X-rays, they followed how the system evolved for up to a picosecond, which is extremely long on an atomic timescale, before the decay occurred.
From Science Daily
Jones, 25, had knocked out Venus Williams in the first round despite feeling under the weather but struggled against Pegula.
From BBC
“Now that the money is better, that might knock out several college players in the draft.”
From Los Angeles Times
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