knot
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Holmes and Amy Robach will be tying the knot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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
Shortly after tying the knot, the pair welcomed their first child, daughter Nina.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was headquarters, the center of a spreading web: the knot where all threads crossed.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The plane decelerates rapidly from a ground speed of 598 knots to 390 knots in 45 seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The aircraft touched down at 158 knots, or roughly 181 miles an hour, Shin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
These leaked Libyan intelligence documents contain information that could potentially put an end to the doubt, theories and countertheories that have tied so many, including me, in knots.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
My stomach was tied up like knots on a rope waiting for Dad to get home, to see what he’d say about the six words when I told him.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
The Cowboys knotted the game with a field goal as the clock read 0:07.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Swalwell’s competitors were quick to amplify the assertions, grappling for advantage in a race that remains stubbornly knotted up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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
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
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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
Moments before his arrest in March, with hundreds of police on his doorstep, Mayor Imamoglu calmly carried on knotting his tie, while making a social media video for his supporters.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
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
She tied a string to the back of the chair, knotting it five times, and held the ball in her spare hand.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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