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knot

[not] / nɒt /




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Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig are starting their forever, tying the knot a month after respective ex-spouses Amy Robach and T.J.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

If you’re 38 or 44 and reading this with a knot in your stomach, you still have time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

It was this reputation that appealed to Patryk and Angelika, both 27, who travelled from north-west England to tie the knot there.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Barely a week after tying the knot with Taylor Swift in July, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was back at work inside Johnny O’s Gymnasium in Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Now understanding the maze’s algorithm, he took up his pencil again, cut though the Gordian knot, and completed the task.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The title refers to knots tied in a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Leaving Roz on shore, I headed out Shallotte Inlet to the open ocean, where southerly winds of 10-12 knots were chasing up one-foot seas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Take it,” Lala demands, her forehead creasing into knots.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The Cowboys knotted the game with a field goal as the clock read 0:07.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The NFC East looks like it’s going to be especially knotted this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

Brunson's layup -- after teammate Jose Alvarado's second steal in 20 seconds -- knotted it at 103-103 with 1:26 remaining and Brunson put the Knicks up for good, 105-103, with 29 seconds left.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

The tightly knotted issues of housing and race have troubled generations of Americans, black and white, liberal and conservative.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

A former colleague comes in on the ferry to bring comforter tops for my knotting group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The weaving and knotting is still done by hand, but now computer software handles the design and creation of the talim code.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

Dominic Fletcher hit a ground ball to short that his brother, David, couldn’t field despite a diving try, scoring Emmanuel Rivera and knotting the score at 1.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2023

The wind whipped through her hair, knotting it with frozen fingers.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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