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knuckle

[nuhk-uhl] / ˈnʌk əl /








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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

"Guys, I just got poked knuckle deep in the eyeball. Why are you booing? I can't see," said a crestfallen Aspinall.

From BBC Oct. 25, 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

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

She sucked air through her teeth and bit on the knuckle of her thumb.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

But they can try to make sense of what just passed, starting with a primary season that was a strange mix of ennui and white knuckles.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

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

David Cameron was rapped on the knuckles when he claimed the late queen "purred" down the phone line when he told her the result of the Scottish referendum.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2025

He cracks his knuckles and massages the empty space on his wrist.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

With Australia in trouble at 39-4 after Mohammed Siraj had dismissed Sam Konstas and Travis Head in the same over, Webster knuckled down with a determined innings that included six fours.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2025

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

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

Possibly she wants to be a painter, and thinks I have compromised my principles, knuckled under to success.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

I was white knuckling it on the passenger side, as one does, jamming my right foot down on the floor.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2022

Vancouver added on late in the period when Jake Middleton sent a clearing attempt right to Hughes, whose knuckling shot from the point bounced off the ice and beat Reimer.

From Seattle Times Feb. 17, 2022

“It was the worst thing that ever happened to us,” she said, her fist knuckling down on the bed with each word.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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