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knit

[nit] / nɪt /


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Even when you have got that, trying to knit every player together takes time, and that is still De Zerbi's issue now.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“It used to be a very close knit group of film critics, and now it’s kind of expanded because people have more of a voice on the internet.”

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Most large companies have a tangle of software from different providers that they’ve knit together over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

His father was killed at the bitter end of the war, fighting for Marshal Tito, the leader who managed to knit together the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and suppress simmering enmities.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

He saw the look, knit his heavy eyebrows, rubbed his hands, and marched abruptly away, saying he’d be back directly.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The IPCC, set up in 1988, knits together assessments from thousands of climate scientists who work voluntarily to compile its mammoth reports.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

She also suggests "adding layers of texture through cushions, throws and blankets" thinking about mixing materials like velvet, boucle or chunky knits.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

And Michael Olise, the breakout star of this tournament, has five assists as he knits the team together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The camera knits them all together in long shots, swirling around their idyllic backyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

From across the room Mom tilts her head and knits her eyebrows together, like she’s asking me what’s going on.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The so-called Quad alliance of Australia, India, the U.S., and Japan knitted closer together.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

By studying how the fabric's geometry and material properties influenced this snap-through behavior, the team determined the physical conditions that allow knitted textiles to become multistable.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

She grew up in poverty and in her 1971 hit Coat of Many Colours describes how she would wear rags which her "mama" had knitted together to school.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

I held them and thought back to my intent to turn the hand-spun yarn into knitted pincushions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Commons was deserted except for a couple of haggard old janitors and the red-wigged lady who sat at the switchboard and knitted all weekend, paying no attention to the incoming calls.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The shift toward “advanced packaging” in the chip world—a term referring to a variety of strategies for knitting together pieces of silicon into one big chip—has long been building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

This was an article about knitting, and this mismatch was immediately called out.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

But it does make mistakes when Vera wants to talk about knitting, often mishearing essential words and offering conversations on "biscuits and cakes" and "music, television, the garden or something else".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It is crucial to the city’s long-term plan of knitting together 300 miles of bikeways by 2040 to bring bicycle culture to Long Beach, as well as create safer streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

On the large table is a half-finished jigsaw puzzle of kittens in a knitting basket.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko


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