white knight

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Recent Examples of white knight Should the approach from Foxconn turn hostile after a rebuff, Honda also offered to protect Nissan as a white knight investor, Nikkei said. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2024 Roksanda found a white knight in The Brand Group, which purchased the fashion label founded in 2005. Joelle Diderich, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024 And this is an enormous deficit, a deficit that is in the range of the COVID deficits, without the benefit of any white knights. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024 Here, his white knight’s armor is sullied before his face is scarred, and how that fits this version of Gotham City makes for a fitting rallying cry all its own. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for white knight
Recent Examples of Synonyms for white knight
Noun
  • Roberts pressed one of the bill’s proponents about the measure’s shield law provision, which would prohibit Colorado authorities from removing a child receiving gender-affirming care from a parent’s home because of another state’s laws.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 1 May 2025
  • While proponents of a missile corps like Lieberman may welcome such an acquisition, Israel has doubled down on using the air force as its foremost tool for offensive operations.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Nevertheless, supporters are calling the Texas law a major win for the school choice movement.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 4 May 2025
  • Led by Pereira, Wolves’ players and staff joined hands, formed a line, walked towards their supporters and raised their hands in the air three times to initiate three loud cheers from the stands.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Some consumer advocates argue that individual people who are so often being targeted by businesses and government activities need their own AI agents to defend them.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • Community advocate Chrome Louis thanked those who offered support.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025

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“White knight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20knight. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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