knitting needle
noun
: one of two or more long, thin, usually metal or plastic sticks that are pointed at one end and used for knitting
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Find the right storage cabinet for small accessories Fishing enthusiasts, coin collectors, and sewing or knitting needle experts will want to store smaller items like those in their collections in smaller storage bins.
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Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Charged water particles orbit a knitting needle, showing electrostatic processes in space.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2024
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Don’t forget poor Bunny Folger, stabbed multiple times in the chest with a knife and a knitting needle by a fame-seeking podcast producer — truly the saddest and among the most New York ways to go.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.
—Jane E. Brody, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
The needle used to give them nutrition was less than 2 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a thin knitting needle.
—Paula Newton, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
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Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Charged water particles orbit a knitting needle, showing electrostatic processes in space.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2024
Related: Why can’t Mabel maintain friendships with her peers?)
Don’t forget poor Bunny Folger, stabbed multiple times in the chest with a knife and a knitting needle by a fame-seeking podcast producer — truly the saddest and among the most New York ways to go.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.
—Jane E. Brody, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
The needle used to give them nutrition was less than 2 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a thin knitting needle.
—Paula Newton, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
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“Knitting needle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knitting%20needle. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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