knot
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In 1997, the actor and socialite Grace Hightower tied the knot, and they celebrated by picking up a $1.5 million home in Gardiner, N.Y.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Boulter and De Minaur tied the knot at a small, private ceremony in England before holding a bigger celebration in Tuscany, Italy, in July.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“That innocuous little essay untangled some aching knot inside me,” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
To overcome this reluctance and ensure that only people interested in tying the knot joined, those signing up had to prove that they were legally single and pass an online interview, among other conditions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But he had ruined it with a ratty belt tied into a bow rather than a proper knot.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
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
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
People left their benches and joined little knots of chattering friends all over the room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Shorter cords are also less likely to end up in knotted wads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
The traditional hiring channels are broken, and the employment pipeline is knotted.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
Their Ghostly Postal sheets had been draped and knotted into togas, and there were wreaths of greenery circled ’round their heads.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
We host volunteers for dinner and knotting comforters for refugees many Monday evenings.
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
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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