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Recent Examples of knee-deep
According to Alison Layfield, vice president of product development at parcel shipping services provider ePost Global, the strike is ill-timed for retailers and logistics teams that are already knee-deep in peak holiday season planning.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Percussion and flute music set the mood in the shrine’s courtyard where a knee-deep pool filled with chunks of ice awaited.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
In the video, the tourist stands about knee-deep in the water in a soaking wet t-shirt and shorts.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, officials said beachgoers were restricted to getting knee-deep into the water and were prohibited from using boogie boards.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Percussion and flute music set the mood in the shrine’s courtyard where a knee-deep pool filled with chunks of ice awaited.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
In the video, the tourist stands about knee-deep in the water in a soaking wet t-shirt and shorts.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, officials said beachgoers were restricted to getting knee-deep into the water and were prohibited from using boogie boards.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knee-deep
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Those late audits have caused ongoing comments by engaged residents who are perplexed that year after year the town’s government is not able to provide the same audit the state’s other 168 municipalities complete and submit to the public and the state’s budget office.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
10 Jan. 2026
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Guiliani said her students have been more engaged and focused.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Jackson Mayor John Horhn, who released a statement about the fire on Facebook, said the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are all involved in the investigation.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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Police said the man was taken into custody for questioning and that everyone involved didn't know each other.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Set in rural New England, The Lonely Woman follows a woman whose first love died in a mountain tunnel, and becomes engrossed in a new disappearance.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
25 Nov. 2025
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In a TikTok video posted by Molly Woodward (@mollyxwoodward), her golden retriever, Ralphy, can be seen curled up on the sofa, fully engrossed in watching The Lion King.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The original is quite preoccupied with this brutal torture situation and the parallel police investigation.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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Privately, some tell me that the best-case scenario might be Washington getting bogged down in Venezuela, too preoccupied to focus on new targets.—
Oliver Stuenkel,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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The absorbed or scattered light creates a unique pattern called the spectrum, which is effectively the substance’s fingerprint.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
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Although the mercury hovered at only 5°, all of us became so absorbed in the rabbit chase that no one noticed numb toes and cold ears.—
Erwin A. Bauer,
Outdoor Life,
25 Dec. 2024
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The nine occupied residences are uninhabitable following the fire.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Sharif’s fate in the 1948 segment should not be revealed when discussing Dabis’ film, which then moves forward 30 years, with the adult Salim (Saleh Bakri) married to Hanan in the occupied West Bank.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Some suggested re-purposing the building, while some homeowners are worried about what new condos would mean for their privacy.—
Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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But before the multi-billion-dollar overhaul of the highway, the city had 900 parking spaces in the space under the hulking highway, and some worried eliminating all parking under I-4 would drive away visitors.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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In Clayton’s and Josephson’s hands, though, the fawn response becomes something more pliable, less a sign of acute threat than a broadly anxious orientation to the world.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Six-year-old Lucas Kincaid of Molalla, Oregon stood with his family to take a final peek in the hulking main telescope beneath the dome in anxious anticipation, snug in his furry hooded jacket like a hibernating bear cub about to meet the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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