Better
Better verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.
Knock
Knock verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Knock it off." An even better lampshade, or perhaps an outright subversion, is when the characters themselves provide the sound effects—"Dun dun DAH!
Source: Sting -
In fact, the better part of the server list is generally clogged up with 'knife DMs', 'army RPs' and generic knock-offs of the 10% of Blockland's servers that are good.
Source: Video Game / Blockland -
To be precise, Nala is simply much better at wrestling and flipping than he is (she needs to be; that's how lionesses deal with most of the prey they can't knock silly).
Source: Disney / The Lion King
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