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[nit] / nɪt /


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Her character wears legwarmers and knit wristlets to the office as protection against the air conditioning, which also serves to emphasize her company’s interpersonal chill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

He’s got sheep on his knit hat, and he’s a sheep at heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

The girl turns around and looks at me, her eyebrows knit together.

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

What separates him is how he knits attacks together.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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

These knits have become synonymous with the holiday season.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

From Sunday football to the Olympic Games, collectively watching and sharing these stories knits us together.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

She knits, talks on the phone with Aunt Louise about their London trip—which they’re still secretly planning—and reads her citizenship booklet.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

These conductive fibers transformed the knitted structures into soft, stretchable electric switches that change electrical state when the fabric snaps from one configuration to another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

And in Seehorn he found someone who, with a mere sidelong glance or knitted brow, can let you in on Gilligan’s secrets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A purple ruffled bonnet and a knitted white sweater.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

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

While knitters were frustrated that the piece was being represented by crochet, crocheters were irked that the piece talked so much about knitting.

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

As Ella and Brigit walked back to the Hydra Tower, Ella listed out all her theories about why Brigit might really be knitting this woman.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton


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