jousting

verb

present participle of joust
as in fighting
of knights in the Middle Ages to engage in battle on horseback with lances The knights jousted against each other.

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Recent Examples of jousting There was plenty of jousting as well in the third of give debates planned in the race. — Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026 But this was really a form of dandyism, of theatre—a bit like jousting in Europe during the late Middle Ages, when combat between knights had become a performance of chivalry. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Niners are going from clobbering the preseason Super Bowl favorite to facing a team jousting with Cleveland for consensus worst in the league. — Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, outside the five districts that Democrats hope to switch, there are safely Democratic districts where progressive candidates are jousting with mainstream rivals, a subset of the national party’s ideological conflict. — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026 For one thing, the later game features Messi, who at the ripe old age of 39 is jousting with France’s Kylian Mbappé for the Golden Boot. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026 The countries also are jousting over management of the Panama Canal. — ABC News, 12 May 2026 Now the Ducks, who put pen to paper with Quenneville last May, are seeking to replicate that feat by jousting with the Vegas Golden Knights for a chance to advance to the conference finals for the first time since their 2017 loss to the Nashville Predators. — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 After this rather violent courtship, the female enters the den, and the pair spends several days living together, often jousting. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
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  1. fighting
  2. wrestling
  3. battling
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  • Rather than fighting strict local regulations head-on, companies like Waymo, Zoox, and Aurora are prioritizing states with explicit legislative preemption that prevents individual cities from banning the technology.
    — Andrew Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The procedure had already been approved, and everyone involved understood that my doctor had spent months fighting to secure authorization.
    — Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of fighting
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  • Benjamin Satterley, known to wrestling fans around the world as Pac, died last month of bronchial asthma, the medical examiner’s office in Cook County, Illinois, confirmed Friday.
    — Rudy Chinchilla, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Inside the school Giamanco saw a woman wrestling with the boy for control of the shotgun.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of wrestling
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  • In states and industries battling a persistently tight labor market, that advantage is hard to overstate.
    — Maha Jweied, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The damage will be felt worldwide, not only in the countries leading AI’s development but in the many now battling to supply them with inputs, as well.
    — RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of battling

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“Jousting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jousting. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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