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Instead, attackers fill the space up to the ceiling, forming what I can only describe as a Dagwood knuckle sandwich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

"Obviously things change as you move on but we just want to knuckle down."

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 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

The words were in another language—something brutal and dark, like a knuckle scraping against stone.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Mr. Ferguson seems less concerned now that the FTC is using its knuckles to chill private speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

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

His head dipped as he stared at his knuckles pressed against the desk.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Instead, she knuckled down and rediscovered her free-scoring form and, with the help of Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh and latterly Amanjot, ensured the chase did not go down to wire.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

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

Her weekly “happy Monday!” texts started coming with handwashing tutorials, tips on knuckling vs. pushing elevator buttons, and advice that sounded ludicrous to me at the time: “avoid the general public.”

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2020

Woman and chimp walk the perimeter of the yard, Jamie knuckling along inside the fence, Goodrich chatting with her companionably from outside.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

“I saw someone sailing away from Penikese,” I said, knuckling Mouse behind her ears.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk