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as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
from the summit we could see knots of houses up and down the river valley
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as in link
a uniting or binding force or influence
their business partnership is strengthened by the knot of personal friendship
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as in grouping
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
knots of people were quietly chatting around the meeting hall
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as in problem
something that requires thought and skill for resolution
the situation involved so many legal knots that we decided to get a lawyer
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as in to tangle
to twist together into a usually confused mass
the extension cords were hopelessly knotted together
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Recent Examples of knot
Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
The world collectively swooned when Amal and George Clooney tied the knot in 2014, and Amal was photographed during a final fitting with the late designer Oscar de la Renta.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2025
Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
His 28-yard touchdown pass knotted the game, sending it into a second overtime.
—Doug Haller, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Maxwell, 12, Ace, 11 and Birdie, 5. After dating for four years, the former singer, reality star and now author and Johnson tied the knot at San Ysidro Ranch in front of 200 guests.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
The world collectively swooned when Amal and George Clooney tied the knot in 2014, and Amal was photographed during a final fitting with the late designer Oscar de la Renta.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
There is no division more closely knotted than the NFC West, with two games separating first-place Seattle (7-5) and last-place San Francisco (5-7), and book-ending Arizona and the Rams at 6-6.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
His 28-yard touchdown pass knotted the game, sending it into a second overtime.
—Doug Haller, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knot
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In addition, people who develop type 2 diabetes are more likely to have a cluster of factors, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and abdominal adiposity (excess fat in the abdomen).5 Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms Type 2 diabetes develops gradually.—
Carisa Brewster,
Verywell Health,
14 Jan. 2025
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Inside a cluster of AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, which power the supercomputer.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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She’s been tested for Celiac disease, in which the gluten found in wheat, barley, rye, and other foods can trigger an intestine-damaging immune response, and Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disease that causes swelling and severe inflammation in the digestive tract.—
Julia Sullivan,
SELF,
22 Jan. 2025
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Lymphatic massage was a must, especially in the beginning when my swelling was at its worst.—
Meirav Devash,
Allure,
17 Jan. 2025
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Ningbo Sunny, however, managed to circumvent the rules by concealing its links to Synta.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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This didn’t sever the link between pain and moral issues—particularly in the case of the pain of childbirth.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Jan. 2025
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In this composition, the mammals are joined only by a grouping of aspen trees, leafless against the winter ground.—
Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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Most of the groupings of bones belonged to a single person, but six graves held remains of multiple people, including one that was different from the others.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2025
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In some ways, this is reminiscent of the supply chain problems brought on by the pandemic, where second- and third-order effects proved damaging and inflationary.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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After one such outage, at their wedding, El Khoury and Abu-Rish took a vow to get to the bottom of the seemingly intractable problem.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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And despite having never met, Carter and King would spend more than half a century tangled in a dance that would forever shape the legacy of the other.—
Katherine Fung,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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With app control, voice assistant compatibility, and a multi-directional, all-rubber brush that resists tangling, the Q5 Pro is built to ensures a thorough and seamless cleaning experience.—
Shubham Yewale,
PCMAG,
7 Jan. 2025
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Child labor on the rise This week's batch of settlements represent the final stretch of the Biden administration’s crackdown on child labor since 2023, when the Labor Department announced a new task force to address an alarming spike in cases.—
Minnah Arshad,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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That makes coming up with deals difficult, but not impossible — and plenty more became possible on Wednesday when trade restrictions were lifted on a batch of players.—
Tony East,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.—
David Williams,
National Review,
26 Dec. 2024
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Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.—
Elise Cutts,
WIRED,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Knot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knot. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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