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knockout

noun as in a blow that knocks unconscious

noun as in a striking person or thing

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No, this was not a knockout game, and that challenge is still to come.

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The knockouts are on the horizon, and Australia still to come, but the signs continue to show that things are shifting in the right direction for Sciver-Brunt's side.

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Despite all that, I couldn’t write a whole section in “108 Asian Cookies” on brownies and bars without including at least one or two knockout blondie recipes!

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The fight had barely started, he remembers, when his father left the room to warm some milk for him, then returned to find he’d missed Ali’s knockout punch.

She says she fights "better under pressure" and is eyeing her first knockout despite admitting she knows little about her opponent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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