knothole

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Recent Examples of knothole All of it from the narrow knothole that is our point of view. Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 In addition to the knothole described above, the company plans to consult a community advisory committee, whose members will sign a nondisclosure agreement. Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 July 2021 The Harding Park knothole gang had an eventful day Thursday at the opening of the PGA Championship. Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 6 Aug. 2020 For those Little League/knothole baseball and softball players playing on summer teams, the diamond can get toasty. Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2018 Veteran scouts recently regaled USA TODAY Sports in stories of a knothole between the clubhouse and the dugout at the old Polo Grounds, with the manager able to relay signs to the hitter. Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knothole
Noun
  • Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.
    Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • It’s made from a breathable cotton blend for body-skimming stretch, and there’s a keyhole detail in the back, plus a slight puff sleeve for some extra style points.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In some cases, one artisan handles a single detail: the slope of a shoulder, the roll of a collar, the precise placement of a buttonhole.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • These wares are made in small workshops in Italy and Portugal, where craftspeople infuse them with high-end details such as hand-sewn buttonholes and silk bar tacks, a form of stitching that reinforces seams and pockets.
    Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In one room, Elliott, eyes squinting and face slicked with sweat, lies on his belly on a makeshift platform watching the street through a large, jagged peephole punched in the wall.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Just slip this over the interior door’s peephole and rest assured knowing that no one can use a device to see in.
    Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Power, input, settings, profile, and Google Assistant buttons sit above the pad, alongside a pinhole microphone.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Contaminated cooling water sometimes leaks to the interior through pinholes or poor seams and introduces bacteria that cause spoilage.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Okay, top-10 best movie entrance of all time for Blake Lively.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In the event of a nuclear attack, traffic would halt, and instead civilians would stream in, sealing off the tunnel entrances with the aid of four concrete doors 1.5 meters thick and capable of withstanding a nuclear detonation at a distance of 1 kilometer.
    Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The Dial, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Milioti will reprise her role for the rare sequel episode after discovering a way to escape from Daly using an update patch from the real world interpreted in the game as a wormhole.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The 75,000-square-foot emporium, converted from a former JC Penney, is a wormhole to the food court of any baekhwajeom (department store galleria) in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As the boat of partiers zooms away into the choppy waters of the Boca Raton inlet, the video pans out to the spread of debris left floating in their wake.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Their bodies were found in the Miller Flats area on the eastern side of the lake — a sprawling reservoir with long fingers and jagged inlets about an hour north of Birmingham.
    Hank Sanders, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the Balsall Heath neighborhood, wind whistles through the puncture marks in one rotting heap where the rats and mice have burrowed in.
    Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The girl suffered puncture wounds and scratches, but didn’t receive any stitches.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Knothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knothole. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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