knuckle under

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Recent Examples of knuckle under The front lines of our legal edifice have been divided and conquered, with premier law firms knuckling under and meekly promising to shut up and work for Trump, while the Supreme Court carefully pulls its punches to avoid a showdown. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025 Of course, Cruz knuckled under a little while later. James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 July 2024 Miraculously, however, it is told in the voice of a musician, Rainy, a man who refuses to knuckle under and whose tones remain kind and more hopeful than despairing. Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024 Biden is all too willing to knuckle under both to the environmentalists who want to stop any new conventional-energy development and to the labor bosses who don’t want to see the ports modernized and automated, which might eat into their discretionary funds. The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2022 Please do not knuckle under. Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2021 His determination to hold on to his dignity, to not knuckle under, marked a pathway for our family to move forward, to expand on what he’d not been allowed to do. Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2023 As noted in this space in 2015, the company required participants in its Times Journeys program — pricey overseas trips guided by Times journalists — to knuckle under to an arbitration clause. Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022 Europe’s governing parties can’t knuckle under to Russian blackmail and retain their democratic viability. Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knuckle under
Verb
  • Over time, the dead spacecraft succumbed to aerodynamic drag, slowly losing altitude before dipping deeper into the atmosphere in recent weeks.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2025
  • Without succumbing to a sappy ending, Reza makes a strong case for valuing relationships over intellectual homogeneity — an outlook that can feel either naïve or hopeful in polarizing times.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Despite peppering Providence goaltender Michael DiPietro with 40 shots while surrendering just 19, the Checkers fell 3-2 in Game 3 of their AHL Atlantic Division semifinal series.
    Colin Cerniglia, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2025
  • Cardinals must surrender all electronic devices, and the Sistine Chapel is placed under full lockdown.
    Dan Cody, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Payments for each device are capped at $20, but claimants may receive less depending on the total number of claims submitted.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Marketers looking to showcase their latest products can submit them for consideration by completing this form.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • Speaking to Variety during the Cannes Film Festival, Leonidas Christopoulos, CEO of Creative Greece, concedes that there have been bureaucratic challenges since the organization’s launch.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2025
  • Now, after dispute the accuracy of the video for several months, the defense concedes that the footage is disturbing as an example of domestic violence.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The series finally bowed in 2019 without any of the principal cast leaving the show.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 May 2025
  • After the match, Gunther bowed in respect to McAfee and Cole, then went about his business.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025

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“Knuckle under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knuckle%20under. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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