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knuckle

[nuhk-uhl] / ˈnʌk əl /








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An early riser who starts many mornings with knuckle push-ups and stair climbing, Foran, 65, is often at the office by 6 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

“This step up in tensions has created a white knuckle moment for the markets with tech stocks under major pressure,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote to clients on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025

Around October and November 2022, Kohberger had injuries including a scratch on his face and knuckle wounds, the teaching assistant told police.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025

A knuckle on his right hand was bleeding, so he put a Band-Aid on it.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

For me, among so many other things, I enjoy without measure watching great reporters crack their knuckles and create a saga where once stood a blinking cursor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

The court's intervention highlighted the ECI's "procedural failures" and must be seen as a "rap on the knuckles", an editorial in the leading Hindu newspaper said.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

She stood up and dug her knuckles into her lower back.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

I only knuckled down on him 10 jumps from the wire because there was somebody above the wire in the starter’s stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

When it came, he read the puck and deflected it with the shaft of his stick, then watched as it knuckled past Shesterkin to make it 1-0 at 4:25.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023

Poulin beat Americans to the puck, turned toward the net and knuckled in a shot that appeared to glance off defender Savannah Harmon.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

It did look like a fist, Jon Snow thought, punching up through earth and wood, its bare brown slopes knuckled with stone.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Hyman scored his second of the night and 11th overall on a 4-on-2 rush, sending a knuckling shot off a Draisaitl set-up past Francouz at 3:55 for a 4-2 lead.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

“Or I had people calling and saying, ‘I just need to talk with you because I’m white knuckling my way through things that I could do before the pandemic.’

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

I stopped and clenched my fists, then bent over, knuckling my temples and gritting my teeth.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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