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While I understand the desire to knock this last bit of debt out, think twice against taking money out of your retirement account.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Like he could dust off one of the old bandannas and knock out a best-of-five.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

"When unity is not so strong... the fear is that an outside threat can knock you down."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

But within a week of settling down, she’d receive a knock on her door, step out of her home, and see flames burning a nearby hillside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Sorry. The walls are thin enough that you knock on one door, you’re knocking on the whole block. Ruth Ann will be gone all evening,” she apologizes.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

"Someone said to me he doesn't feel like he'd win a world title unless he knocks him out. I didn't like that," promoter Frank Warren said afterwards.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

"It brings so much emotion back that it really knocks you for six and you go into a really deep depression."

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

"When someone knocks on your door and tells you: 'Get up, come on, leave here. This is real, you have to go.'"

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

About five times a day, she says, her mom knocks on her door, often to ask for help with technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

After I change into shorts and a T-shirt, I crawl under my desk to pick up the shiny round button, and Mom knocks on the door when I’m climbing back out with it.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The Filipino tennis sensation knocked out three Grand Slam champions at last year’s Miami Open and arrives in New York ranked No. 18, the highest-ranked female Southeast Asian player in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

It’s reasonable to believe that the moment he knocked home match point for major No. 25 the word “Retirement” would appear before him in gigantic flashing letters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Marshals started to surveil the apartment building Tuesday and, around 8 p.m., knocked on the apartment door, Clark said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The situation has been ongoing since Chelsea were knocked out of the Champions League by PSG in March, after which Fernandez became increasingly critical of the club.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

She knocked on the glass window and before you could say “Osiyo,” it slid open.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

So keep good records in case the tax man comes knocking, said Moll, “and hope the auditor or the judge agrees.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Then again, as last year’s mixed jamboree showed, the part-time doublers may have a hard time knocking out the professionally committed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"They are abiding by knocking down the number of logo'd items but there are lots of ways that the schools can get around it."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rangers' reward for knocking out Premier Sports Cup holders St Mirren is a mouth-watering quarter-final against Old Firm rivals Celtic.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

He caught himself on Doc’s desk, knocking a cup of pens and a picture off the surface.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste