knuckle
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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
Then again, who among us hasn’t requested a parade of knuckle sandwiches with our cake and candles?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
After the last summer I just needed to knuckle down, game by game, and play well.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
“Not far,” Sciola said, rubbing with a knuckle at his pouchy eye.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
“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
Dad clenches the arms of his seat, his knuckles white.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
Asked if it had knuckled on Outman, Marte was sympathetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
The 83-year-old Chuck Wepner stands 6ft 5in tall, with broad shoulders and heavily knuckled hands; bone calluses serve as reminders of a life spent punching.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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
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
His curveball wasn’t curving, his sinker wasn’t sinking, his knuckler wasn’t knuckling.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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