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Public pay phones are gaining more attention, too, specifically the old copper-wired variety that still work when storms knock out power lines and cellphone networks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Thybulle will be asked to knock down corner threes and fill the lane on the fast break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
An hour later there came a knock on another door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The 20-year-old South African's knock off 79 deliveries, including 13 sixes and 15 fours, helped Titans post 267-3 against Knights in the CSA T20 Challenge.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
I accidentally knock my needles to the floor as I stand.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
"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
Like Lawrence, he has performed well in the County Championship, scoring 510 runs at 56.66, including five 50+ knocks, for Surrey, but will not automatically slot back into the side in Bethell's absence.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In theory, the decision knocks years off Henrikson’s sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Two knocks on the door spurred me into sitting up.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
They played so much golf that Haaland knocked seven strokes off his game to lower his handicap to 15.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Pidcock finished second at the one-day race in Varese but was left "mad" after Pinarello-Q36.5 team-mates Marcel Camprubi and Thomas Gloag were knocked off their bikes with six laps of the finishing circuit to go.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Early in the Minnesota Vikings’ 15-10 victory over the Miami Dolphins, Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson appeared to be shoved into Hill, who was knocked to the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The weather incident caused damage to properties and knocked over some trees, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
One night, his papers and pencils were knocked to the parlor floor by Estelle’s unearthly white gown which grew more solid, more real with each session.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The complex internal hierarchy of Israel’s kibbutzim ensures that only a few long-term residents—usually older people—have a vote in matters relating to governance, including the painful question of knocking down the houses of the kibbutz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
While Brooks canvassed for the state’s largest progressive community action organization, she thought about one of her first interactions knocking doors this cycle.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 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
She skitters, knocking over garbage cans, snapping her jaws.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
