Knocked in example sentence

If a young female lawyer or banker on a promising career track decides to leave the office “early” every day to be home with her kids for dinner, work part-time, or take time out to be a full-time caregiver, she is quickly knocked out of the competition for top jobs.

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I went and knocked on the door of the Rio Tinto Chair of Advanced Mineral Extraction at the Royal School of Mines and said, "How do you make steel?"

But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars.

And I knocked on the door.

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