knocked
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“To be knocked out by it, to think of it as sensational.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
"I was just recently married but all of these symptoms came in a great big wave and just knocked me off my feet," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
When the X-rays struck the copper, they knocked electrons out of the atoms' innermost electron shells, leaving behind empty positions known as 'holes'.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
All our Instagrams were draped in sepia—grid posts only—where we celebrated latte art and selfies of our knocked knees.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
I knocked on his door before bed, but he didn’t reply.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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