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Aside from suspensions, Caicedo had missed only two matches during the previous three seasons, through a knock and illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

But when Iran launched rockets against U.S. bases in Jordan last week, Patriots reportedly were used to knock the incoming missiles down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Real surprises are rarer in the land of Too Much TV, although we shouldn’t knock reliable comforts.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Sidney Bonilla, treasurer and business manager of Steamfitters UA Local 602, said his members knock on doors for candidates and help finance campaigns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

While Mother and I wash and put away the few dishes we haven’t yet sold at the market, we hear a faint knock at the door.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

"Someone said to me he doesn't feel like he'd win a world title unless he knocks him out. I didn't like that," promoter Frank Warren said afterwards.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

"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

"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

Her aim is perfect— her Amazon sword knocks the plank out of the air and kills the momentum.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

"They managed to escape - my brother ran and knocked on the door of the nearest house but no-one was in so they ran back to the pub," the boy's older sister says.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

And then to have that knocked out of you bit by bit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The floods, which destroyed entire villages near the border of Nepal and Tibet, severely damaged 12 hydropower plants in the Trishuli River basin and knocked out more than 10% of Nepal's total power generation capacity.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

There had been a great burning flash—he had been knocked to the ground by it, sand in his eyes and mouth—and a single moment’s pause; and then the whole Earth shook.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

The man can then be seen walking along the street and knocking on neighbours' doors before returning to Holly's home and knocking on the front door.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

So keep good records in case the tax man comes knocking, said Moll, “and hope the auditor or the judge agrees.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

A good territory allows a couple to raise a family so it makes more sense for an eagle in possession of one to stay put and wait for other eagles to come knocking, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

He threw his arms out to catch himself, knocking the monocle from his eye.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman