knuckle
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Rory McIlroy says he has no plans "to stop here" after emerging from a white knuckle final round to retain the Masters and match European great Sir Nick Faldo's haul of six major titles.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
“Those tools are expensive when applied to you even if we don’t win at the end of the day, so knuckle under.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
It scrapes the top of one knuckle, does a bit of a dive to the second knuckle … and then scoots along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
The coin stumbled over a knuckle and slipped silently into the dealer’s lap.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
When it looked like my knuckles would punch holes in it, I plopped it down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
Mr Teller said the name was also inspired by the distinctive pale "knuckles" on the small leg-like appendages at the side of the spider's mouth.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
Combatants try to get any edge they can in the contests, which can be painfully hard on the knuckles.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
His head dipped as he stared at his knuckles pressed against the desk.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
They did so, as Smith and Lawrence knuckled down to add 105 from 31 overs in the morning session.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
Yet, when faced with adversity, Adams never knuckled up for any fights on principle, choosing only to take the easiest and most comfortable way out.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025
Asked if it had knuckled on Outman, Marte was sympathetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Boyd scored midway through the first period, beating Stalock on a shot from the right circle that knuckled off Chicago defenseman Ian Mitchell’s stick.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
He’d have thought that knee-jerk skepticism would have been knuckled under by the sight of the enormous floating seraph in the sky.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Writing for the Sun on Sunday, Starmer described the strategy as "the most ambitious yet honest delivery plan in a generation" as the government was "knuckling down" on delivering its election promises.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024
Fowler scored his career-best 43rd point with a goal in the first period on a knuckling shot that threaded a path among three Anaheim teammates.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
They may be white knuckling it because they live in perpetual fear of someday failing to measure up.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
What cannot be allowed to occur is your in-laws knuckling under to tears.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2019
“No,” came back sourly, “but here you are in the officer’s room with two robots standing guard at the door. That’s not knuckling under, is it?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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