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knot

[not] / nɒt /




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This chimes with some of the women at the temple, who say they have been seeing more and more social media posts of friends tying the knot and having babies.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Qualley and Antonoff tied the knot in August 2023, a little over a year after they got engaged in May 2022.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Blazy has barely put a foot wrong, and designed the wedding dress of British singer Dua Lipa when she tied the knot with actor Callum Turner in Sicily earlier this month.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

The couple tied the knot in 2016, just one year after they met at the Las Vegas Country Saloon, where Jelly Roll was performing as the opening act for the Moonshine Bandits.

From MarketWatch Jul. 4, 2026

I closed my eyes and could feel my forehead knot.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Gignac, who sells other city trash on his website, said he tied some of the items into knots to "hammer home the wedding theme."

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

But many others twist themselves into knots attempting to explain why sweaty guys punching each other are a core component of the American Way.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2026

"They have to go at really slow speeds, probably two or three knots, so they can conduct a survey of the underwater environments," said Kelly.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The drone boat deployed for rescue on Tuesday was Saronic’s Corsair, a 24-foot vessel with top speed of over 35 knots and a range of over 1,000 nautical miles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Nor had Simon, but his knowledge of sailor knots was vast, and he quickly realized that knitting was simply rows of knots hitched together on needles.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

This Safavid-era carpet created for an ancestral shrine in northwest Iran was gifted by J. Paul Getty and is prized for its ornately knotted design featuring lamps and central medallions.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 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

Yet his discarded idea of knotted structures may still help explain one of the deepest questions in science: why anything in the universe exists at all.

From Science Daily Dec. 7, 2025

Though not as tall or physically commanding as Bull’s, Captain Brannon’s body was stacked together with the knotted muscles of a stevedore, and an implied menace shadowed his whole appearance.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

We host volunteers for dinner and knotting comforters for refugees many Monday evenings.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

After the Hornets erased a three-point half-time deficit, knotting the score at 57-57, the Thunder unleashed a 16-1 scoring run to seize a 15-point lead.

From Barron's Nov. 16, 2025

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

Defarge, knotting my fate inexorably into the stitches of this nobly field-tested woolen garment.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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