knuckle
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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
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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
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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
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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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