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knock out

verb as in knock unconscious

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One loaf, and she was a shoo-in for the baker’s job, though I suspect she may have knocked out the competition with some hocus-pocus, too, if rumors are to be believed.”

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Adams pointed to how safety Quentin Lake was knocked out of the game because of an elbow injury.

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It has also targeted residential areas, knocking out power for tens of thousands across the country as temperatures plunge.

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"People aren't going to remember Anthony Joshua for knocking out Jake Paul - George Foreman and Muhammad Ali fought fad events and journeymen, and nobody talks about that anymore."

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Up and down the coast, violent tremors knocked out power and toppled warning towers.

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

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