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knuckle

[nuhk-uhl] / ˈnʌk əl /








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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

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

I take his head in my armpit and rub his hair with my knuckle.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

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

“About, well . . .” He cracked his knuckles, pushed his hair off his forehead, tugged at his collar.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

The 83-year-old Chuck Wepner stands 6ft 5in tall, with broad shoulders and heavily knuckled hands; bone calluses serve as reminders of a life spent punching.

From BBC Jan. 25, 2023

Trout crushed a 111.8-mph missile to center field in that series that knuckled so viciously the ball sailed a good 10 feet over the head of Julio Rodríguez for a triple.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2022

Spearmen at each gate knuckled their foreheads at Jon Snow but stared openly at Val and her garron.

From "A Dance with Dragons" 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

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

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

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk




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