knock
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He worked up the courage to knock on the door.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"The evidence -- that you can knock out PRX3 in mice and there's no adverse phenotype -- supports our approach."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Razaullah's thrilling knock included nine sixes, tying the record for the most maximums in an innings by a batter on Test debut.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
One knock on Apple’s Cook era has been that the company didn’t release more innovative products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I leap over the gate and run up the stairs and am about to knock on Lou Ann’s door when I hear her say: “It’s a terrible situation.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
"It brings so much emotion back that it really knocks you for six and you go into a really deep depression."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He’s experienced plenty of hard knocks since being disfigured in battle by his power-hungry brother, via Vhagar’s dragon fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Palmer and Colwill were given the freedom to go shopping after picking up knocks against Spurs, but videos of their outing showed just how well-known they were.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"When someone knocks on your door and tells you: 'Get up, come on, leave here. This is real, you have to go.'"
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
In recent days, drone attacks knocked out a crucial pipeline that allowed Saudi Arabia to circumvent the strait by exporting crude via the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
They knocked on the front door and window.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Americans knocked out their quarterfinal opponents 108-56, notching the team’s 34th consecutive win in World Cup play since 2006.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
While the country was knocked sideways by the Sept. 11 attacks, I was a closeted kid alone in a new city, and football did something for me that I have never forgotten.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
But when they knocked at the door, the sound echoed vacantly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Lockheed has spent the past year rushing to assemble new suppliers for its Patriot interceptor, a high-end missile capable of knocking down a range of airborne attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Two months later, police were knocking on their door.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
This, he says, can be a positive development - a way of removing space junk as well as knocking out working satellites.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, knocking out power for 91 percent of a western island as it pushed out further into the Pacific on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
But their favorite trick of all was knocking over outhouses.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
