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knelt

[nelt] / nɛlt /


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Protesters, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions before being handcuffed and led away, video showed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

She knelt in front of the first officer she saw, told him she’d fled the colectivos, and pleaded for a chance to seek asylum.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2026

On reaching his hundred, Head saluted the crowd and then knelt to kiss a batting surface that treats him so well.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2025

I accompanied Romero in Washington in 2010, when he knelt at RFK’s gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery and wept.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2025

Once the frame was found, he knelt down beside it, holding it with a white handkerchief to protect it from his own fingerprints.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day



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