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
  • Prospective visitors, along with park proponents, are concerned about what the parks and experiences may look like after the sweeping layoffs across the National Park Service and the larger federal government in February.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Plan proponents saw this as a way to combat the district’s funding problems.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a statement posted to X, Taylor congratulated Lee and acknowledged the impact of his supporters.
    Oumou Fofana, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Some supporters even lost the will to protest, feeling nothing will change.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Book dispute is one of three religious rights cases The case is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and appears likely to be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Environmental advocates and cheerleaders for biodiversity were overjoyed that the wolves — who in their best moments look a lot like big, cuddly dogs — were making such an astonishing comeback.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That would have given him more complicated Taylor approximations, with exponents greater than 2.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • 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

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“White knight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20knight. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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