knot
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Last October, she was getting ready to tie the knot at a gorgeous hilltop ceremony in Nashville when inspiration struck.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
Singer Charlie Puth has offloaded the Montecito mansion where he and Brooke Sansone tied the knot, selling the sprawling estate for $18.5 million.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The former couple, who tied the knot in March 2017, told People that they had been separated for some time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Zara’s standing behind me, her normally perfect hair piled on top of her head in a loose knot, small tendrils frizzing out along her hairline.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Within 30 seconds, the plane reached its final ground speed of 65 knots, or about 75 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The aircraft touched down at 158 knots, or roughly 181 miles an hour, Shin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tied Mbeumo in knots as he tried to set up an equaliser.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
My eyes drifted to the woman, who wore a plain indigo tunic with knots, her graying hair drawn back in a tight bun.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Charismatic and volatile, Shakur delivered intricately knotted verses—seductive then somber, mushy then menacing—in a voice scuffed by carton-loads of Newports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Think: a jersey dress with knotted ruching in an unexpected shade of green, or leather mules with an inverted heel that makes you look twice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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
Any irregular signal was thought to mean the strand had knotted as it moved through the pore.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
Mary Toy caught aholt of his knotted sleeve and tugged at it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
They did it again the seventh, knotting the score at 4-4 on Hernández’s pinch-hit home run.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
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
What does this idea—say, the knotting of braids—have in common with that one in some other seemingly disparate area—say, the symmetries of some geometric figure?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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