knuckle
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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
“Those tools are expensive when applied to you even if we don’t win at the end of the day, so knuckle under.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
"So when my knuckle is away from the body, I'm not anchoring or touching any part of my body and I know I'm within the rules."
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
He lightly taps my arm with his knuckle.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
Fall is when cinephiles rub their hands together, crack their knuckles and say: Step aside, Spider-Man, now the screens belong to us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
"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
“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
Dad booms, gripping the bat with his gigantic knuckles.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He is rarely bare knuckled on the golf course.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
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
I only knuckled down on him 10 jumps from the wire because there was somebody above the wire in the starter’s stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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
Once I knuckled down to learn it, it was just another type of acting.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
“Page,” he said, as the small boy trotted in, knuckling his eyes.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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