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In training, he was willing to just knuckle down and work hard.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

“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

He rubs his thumb once across my knuckle and then cocoons my finger in the palm of his hand.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

The gloves are weathered and white, their brightness dulled by the decades, with the brand name “reusch” across the knuckles and a big, plum-colored sun on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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

Mr Teller said the name was also inspired by the distinctive pale "knuckles" on the small leg-like appendages at the side of the spider's mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

The bearish boy’s knuckles went white around his branch.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

It did look like a fist, Jon Snow thought, punching up through earth and wood, its bare brown slopes knuckled with stone.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

Hyman scored his second of the night and 11th overall on a 4-on-2 rush, sending a knuckling shot off a Draisaitl set-up past Francouz at 3:55 for a 4-2 lead.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

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

I stopped and clenched my fists, then bent over, knuckling my temples and gritting my teeth.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia