tightknit

/ ˌtaɪtˈnɪt /

adjective

1. closely integrated

   a tightknit community

2. organized carefully and concisely

Example Sentences

Some of Starbucks’s tightknit alumni offered assistance for those laid off, and others criticized the cuts and closures.

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Valadez invited him to visit her office off the shore of Clear Lake, to her tightknit community where the security guard at the courthouse next door calls entrants “kiddo.”

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In January, Souther performed onstage with the Eagles at Inglewood’s Kia Forum, where Don Henley introduced him as part of the “tightknit community of songwriters and singers” that he and the Eagles’ Glenn Frey would turn to in the ’70s “when we would get stuck on a song or we’d try to start some new material.”

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The incident stunned the small, tightknit community where most everybody knows everybody, Crockett said.

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Much of Trump’s defense at trial consists of getting prosecution witnesses to admit that Trump himself didn’t falsify his company’s books, because others in his tightknit enterprise made the physical entries and drafted the checks that he signed with his notorious black Sharpie.

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