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[not] / nɒt /




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Country star Zach Bryan has reportedly forked over $18.25 million for a sprawling estate in Franklin, Tenn.—months after tying the knot with Samantha Leonard.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

It was this reputation that appealed to Patryk and Angelika, both 27, who travelled from north-west England to tie the knot there.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Barely a week after tying the knot with Taylor Swift in July, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was back at work inside Johnny O’s Gymnasium in Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Dove Cameron and Damiano David have tied the knot!

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Most mushrooms lived only several days, and Clare had expected the fuzzy white knot to quickly shrivel up and return to the earth.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The plane decelerates rapidly from a ground speed of 598 knots to 390 knots in 45 seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The aircraft touched down at 158 knots, or roughly 181 miles an hour, Shin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Earlier analysis by BBC Verify found there was an active thunderstorm near the airport shortly before the crash, with winds gusting up to 26 knots.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Torak sat, and watched her tying knots to mark the measurements.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

Think: a jersey dress with knotted ruching in an unexpected shade of green, or leather mules with an inverted heel that makes you look twice.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

This Safavid-era carpet created for an ancestral shrine in northwest Iran was gifted by J. Paul Getty and is prized for its ornately knotted design featuring lamps and central medallions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Brunson's layup -- after teammate Jose Alvarado's second steal in 20 seconds -- knotted it at 103-103 with 1:26 remaining and Brunson put the Knicks up for good, 105-103, with 29 seconds left.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

His feet were on fire, his lower back was a mess of knotted muscles and tendons, his fingers throbbed.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

We host volunteers for dinner and knotting comforters for refugees many Monday evenings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Moments before his arrest in March, with hundreds of police on his doorstep, Mayor Imamoglu calmly carried on knotting his tie, while making a social media video for his supporters.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

They did it again the seventh, knotting the score at 4-4 on Hernández’s pinch-hit home run.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024

They fidgeted in their seats, subtly adjusting their grips on the oars, shifting their weight, adjusting angles, trying to keep their muscles from knotting up and freezing in place.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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