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Also encouraging was the performance of Cox, whose knock also built on a slow start and followed an impressive run in the Test side against Pakistan.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
This week in the Don’t Short Yourself newsletter, Genna Contino shared her own plan to knock out $7,500 in credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
This was a moment where I had to ignore the “reasonable” voices and knock on the door of madness: $300,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The robot was agile enough to complete 10 consecutive somersaults in 11 seconds, even while wind disturbances tried to knock it away from its intended path.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
A knock on the alley door made me glance in the window mirror.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The Brewers added two insurance runs in the seventh, as Bauers and Andrew Vaughn collected a pair of RBI knocks against left-handed reliever Alex Vesia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
About five times a day, she says, her mom knocks on her door, often to ask for help with technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
She knocks the car door and double-dimple grins.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
Baugh, a Heisman candidate with tree-trunk thighs, carried the ball into the end zone following a block from tight end Lacota Dippre that knocked a defender straight to the ground and opened up the lane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
He knocked a 384-foot flyout — rated “majestic” on announcer Joe Davis’ scale — to the center-field track Wednesday, and came right back and smacked another flyout 382 feet in the first inning Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Rates are likely higher than measured, because health systems across a continent were knocked out by the eruption and struggling to recover ten years later.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the fifth round, the champion landed a powerful right-hand punch that knocked Pantoja down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Father knocked on his door as we passed that noon, to see if someone were ill, but there was no answer.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But then Reece receives a phone call from Catherine, knocking all first impressions sideways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
If cats get bored, they might redirect toward knocking things over, tearing up the carpet or biting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He cried out in shock, his hand jerking out of control and knocking a box of charcoal sticks across the table.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
