knuckles
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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
Mr. Ferguson seems less concerned now that the FTC is using its knuckles to chill private speech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
Combatants try to get any edge they can in the contests, which can be painfully hard on the knuckles.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
“Joylette, are you home?” a woman’s voice called out to my mother by her first name as her knuckles rapped on the door.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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