knocking
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knockings
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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 petition has grabbed the attention of Jonathan Davies, Labour MP for Mid Derbyshire, who said he found out about it while knocking on his constituents' doors.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
A powerful autumnal storm lashed the heavily populated US Northeast corridor on Sunday with wind, rain and large waves, knocking out power for thousands and killing at least one person.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
There were no spirits at all, just some sisters with knocking knees.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
If you are asking him to run the week, to run the camp and to be the leader, then when it is proper knockings you need your best leaders on the pitch.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
His political activism was forged in a childhood spent along the campaign trail — pancake breakfasts and endless door knockings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter play the luvvie pair in this portrait of the final knockings of Burton and Taylor's romance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013
Ian Evans is also an option in the second row, although Geoff Parling didn't miss one of his 14 tackles and ran an almost faultless line-out until the last knockings.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2013
Her knockings were made by a floorboard on a lever that she pressed with her foot.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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