knuckle
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In training, he was willing to just knuckle down and work hard.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
She nodded her head and put her knuckle back in her mouth.
From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 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
When it looked like my knuckles would punch holes in it, I plopped it down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Budget airline easyJet was given a rap on the knuckles this week for misleading customers about how much it charges for a carry-on bag.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
She reached over and rubbed his knuckles with her rough palm.
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
However the pair simply knuckled down and went back to work, with gigs and releasing music.
From BBC ● May 3, 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
Bucky caught my neck in the crook of his elbow and knuckled my hair.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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
“Or I had people calling and saying, ‘I just need to talk with you because I’m white knuckling my way through things that I could do before the pandemic.’
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
“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
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