knock
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Scott and I would knock on each other’s doors when the parenting was too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The knock on such megamergers is well-known: They distract management, sow years of organizational chaos, and invite regulatory scrutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
When these materials slam into Earth's magnetic shield, they can knock out satellites, threaten astronauts -- and create colourful auroras in the skies of northern and southern latitudes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
For Brook to outshine both Marsh and Rickelton, when the pair were so ruthlessly dominating Spirit's bowlers, indicates just how special his knock was.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Wes, you shouldn’t go up there and knock on the door.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"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
In theory, the decision knocks years off Henrikson’s sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 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
When Aunt Pooh knocks on the front door, some older woman talks to us through the screen and sends me, Aunt Pooh, and Scrap to the garage in the back.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
"It was literally grab what you needed and get out and within about four or five minutes the police knocked on the door again and said, 'You really have got to get out now'."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Increase in playoffs-related revenue over last year for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., whose New York Knicks won the NBA championship in June after getting knocked out in the Eastern Conference Finals last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Johnson lived near Bruce’s owners and told authorities that Bruce, who was wearing a muzzle, knocked him down while attempting to bite him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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
Samel was given water after knocking at the door of the property near Bickerstaffe.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
They organized a food train, and Scott was the one who set up a cooler on my front porch and insisted people drop food without knocking, knowing we were overwhelmed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
A retoucher is used to strike the edge of a worn stone tool, knocking off small flakes to restore its intended form and cutting edge.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
In dozens of strikes since this spring, Ukraine has pounded oil refineries across its larger neighbor, knocking more than one-quarter of Russian refining capacity offline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
