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While he did receive support, he couldn’t anticipate Nate Boyer’s attempts to profit from the protest and steal credit from Kaepernick teammate Eric Reid for the idea to kneel.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

“We are not going to do what other governments did, which was to go and kneel before organized crime.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

With only 18 seconds left after that game-tying score, the Rams opted to kneel and send the game to overtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

The poacher offerered to kneel and apologise, telling Silva that he only came to the field to look at birds.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Together we kneel and she carefully touches each stone.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

In another, “Mao’s Guilt,” the late Chinese leader kneels with his hand over his heart, seemingly in a display of penance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Seeing all this, a woman kneels and cries out between sobs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

The croc is famously seen in the scene where Kozlowski's character is attacked as she kneels next to a creek.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

Hawk kneels at Tim’s quilt square and gives words to the truth he’s carried in his heart for 3½ decades: “He was the man I loved.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

She kneels down and looks in my eyes.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

As they viewed the remains laid out on a white silk sheet, many pilgrims made the sign of the cross, others kneeled down.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

South Florida's NBC6 reports the men kneeled, clapped their hands together, and waved their shirts at the passing helicopter.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Before chairs with a back and arm rests debuted as a status symbol among ancient Egyptians about 5,000 years ago, he says that humans mostly kneeled or squatted for about 2 million years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

In the potato-chip aisle, a woman kneeled on the floor, diligently unpacking boxes, filling the shelves with chips, then reversing the process and repeating it several times over.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

We both kneeled down to pick up the cards.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Thailand's foreign ministry denied Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country's king during his state visit to Paris this week, after an AI-generated picture circulated online.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

After a young woman knelt down and reached her hand into the pool Monday, she was quickly approached by a National Park Service official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

Twelve fired FBI agents are alleging that they were unlawfully sacked because they knelt during a racial justice protest in Washington DC five years ago.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

She knelt before me and began yanking at my trouser cuff.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

About 40% of people in their 60s have some difficulty crouching, kneeling or stooping.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

He was found kneeling in front of a piano and striking the keys, in apparent distress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

A resident driving in the area where the fire started spotted a man kneeling in grass before standing up and “looking very nervous,” Nowels said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

There were also no images of Macron kneeling before the king in official photographs published by Thailand's foreign ministry of the leaders at the decoration ceremony and state dinner, an AFP review found.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Still kneeling on the ground, I opened my arms, and he stepped shakily into them.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler