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tight-knit

[tahyt-nit]

adjective

  1. well-organized and integrated.



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"Cobar is a small mining community, it's very tight-knit, and I'm sure everyone's going to be thinking of their families today."

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"With Mizzou being a leading research university and having a tight-knit community feel, I know I'm at the right place."

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After two years in her appointed role, she lost an election bid in 2011 but continued to make a name for herself in the tight-knit, clubby world of progressive West Hollywood politics.

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But this baby plot is the pride and joy of the tight-knit group of green thumbers who tend to it.

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Routinely dispatched to this unassuming street in Marion County, Fla., the officers are invariably charmed by the tight-knit families they find, joking with the kids, commiserating easily with the parents.

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