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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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.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Charged water particles orbit a knitting needle, showing electrostatic processes in space.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 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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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Charged water particles orbit a knitting needle, showing electrostatic processes in space.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 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 29 Jul. 2025.
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