joust

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Image: This photo is an artist's impression of the cosmic joust, showing how the galaxy on the right hosts a quasar in the centre.

From Space Scoop • May 21, 2025

Local 99 declared victory Sunday in the legal joust.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

But only some ply the style Walters created with some semblance of her skill, if not always or often with the sharp points and jabs with which she used to joust.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

This time, the Beast of Bolsover and Madam Speaker perform a verbal joust in the form of a rap battle.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022

“Suppose we’d better have a joust, eh, what?”

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