knocked

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The palette is pastel and soft-washed, mixing with bolder tones, but everything is knocked back, never loud.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Storm Jangmi -- which was downgraded from a typhoon -- injured 15 people in southern Japan on Tuesday, knocked out power to thousands of homes and grounded hundreds of flights.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Carpenter said that when Applegate couldn’t gain access, he knocked on the door as well as rang the doorbell.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

At 5 p.m., about an hour after the email was sent, Waldorf was getting out of the shower when the CEO of the hospital, Larry Shackelford, knocked on her door.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

As if he were proud of the fact that he had knocked me out of a two dollar reward, the big monkey then did something that all but caused me to swallow my Adam’s apple.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls