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"I knock on a lot of doors but I know people are tired of listening. They are frustrated with politics. If one person says 'this is amazing,' it makes me go after 10 other doors."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

“You remove weight, but you also knock down inflammation,” said Tim Church, chief medical officer at Wondr Health, a company that works with patients with chronic conditions to help them change their behavior.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Several players including Vivianne Miedema, Sydney Lohmann, Rebecca Knaak and Risa Shimizu are recovering from injury, while Sam Coffey picked up a knock in their crucial victory over Arsenal on Sunday.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Cavaliers knock off Birmingham to become favorite to win West Valley League.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

He could almost sense the black dog waiting for him to knock, and if he did, there was no telling what the dog would do.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

Claire desperately needs a charge, so she knocks on the door of her previously unmet neighbor across the hall, Oliver, to see if she can borrow the necessary device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Her blistering century against Australia in the semi-final of the 2017 Women's ODI World Cup remains one of the defining knocks in the history of the women's game.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That rise would have been higher without the government's VAT cut, which knocks the equivalent of about £45 a year off a typical bill.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Brewers added two insurance runs in the seventh, as Bauers and Andrew Vaughn collected a pair of RBI knocks against left-handed reliever Alex Vesia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

But three days later, it’s not the Gestapo that knocks.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

For people my age, getting knocked off the property ladder can be very hard to recover from.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Liverpool went on to score three goals in 19 first-half minutes and knocked City out.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

They played so much golf that Haaland knocked seven strokes off his game to lower his handicap to 15.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It has also resumed strikes on the energy grid, triggering power cuts in a repeat of attacks that last winter knocked out heating and power for days as temperatures hit -20C.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

And the table was exactly centered in the room, as if it had never been knocked off-kilter by struggling men.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"We are still knocking on a closed door," Dombos told the BBC, "but at least they are listening on the other side."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But New England showed something last week in knocking off Buffalo, and it makes a big difference when Drake Maye doesn’t turn it over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The complex internal hierarchy of Israel’s kibbutzim ensures that only a few long-term residents—usually older people—have a vote in matters relating to governance, including the painful question of knocking down the houses of the kibbutz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Beside Boaz, Daniel tried shifting some of the open books away without knocking off one of the several dirty coffee mugs.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny