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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

Then Rushing again ambushed the first pitch — a knuckle curve on the inside edge — and drove it off the right-field wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

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

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

"He's getting frustrated. He had a great chance in the previous frame and didn't convert. Those knuckles will be sore, let me tell you."

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

The gloves are weathered and white, their brightness dulled by the decades, with the brand name “reusch” across the knuckles and a big, plum-colored sun on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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

He placed his knuckles on the sides of his hips, hoping that he looked strong and manly.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

Asked if it had knuckled on Outman, Marte was sympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

But when the music stops, she sees her husband’s hands, big- knuckled with long, square-tipped fingers, inordinately large even for his frame.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

“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