jousting

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TV commercials showed construction workers jousting with FatMaxes, and Stanley sued copycat competitors for alleged patent infringement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

These include regional fisheries bodies and the International Seabed Authority -- the forum where nations are jousting over proposed rules on the environmentally destructive deep-sea mining industry.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

And like sword fights, jousting is never not entertaining.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

I had the delight to be brought in to kind of decorate, to play around — to almost tease her up into the jousting arena.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

As it turned out, Turquine did sit better when it came to the tilt, so that this particular criticism came to nothing—but it throws a sidelight on jousting and may have been worth mentioning.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White