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- tight + knit. (Wiktionary)
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“People don't tend to think it's going to happen up here," said Karen Ramsey, of Lancaster, referring to the tight-knit, rural community.”
“The pastor generally avoids private interviews, surrounding himself with a tight-knit loyal staff.”
“Molly and Gary start out as outsiders in a tight-knit community, and I loved it that those who were most suspicious turned out in the book to be the most nurturing.”
A conversation with novelist Caroline Leavitt about Girls In Trouble
“But we're a tight-knit group, so it was really a fun and relaxed creative atmosphere.”
Friday Night Lights Comes to an End: The Cast Says Good-Bye with Clear Eyes, Full Hearts
“Emerging-market governments and their private-sector allies commonly form a tight-knit — and, most of the time, genteel — oligarchy, running the country rather like a profit-seeking company in which they are the controlling shareholders.”
“Second, because as so many of our brave troops, Nunn comes from that typical small-town America, with a tight-knit community, with a small high school and a great high school band -- Nunn was the band's second chair trombone player -- with its Dairy Queen and its Dollar Store, its historic square and its Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.”
The Huffington Post: Dorian de Wind: America's '100-Year Wars'
“One source, who described the discussions on the retransmission fees issue as "tight-knit, high-level, early stage", said that while a concerted effort by the broadcasters is what is really needed, care has to be taken not to cross the line into anti-competitive collusion.”
“They each came from extremely tight-knit families and expressed how much they valued family above all.”
“Socially, she has maintained a tight-knit group of friends, some of whom have moved to Washington and work in the administration, and some of whom she has reconnected with since moving here.”
“There was such a pride, and it was such a tight-knit community.”
The Washington Post: Reader's Guide to Super Bowl XLV (#SB45)
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Ido Berger closely integrated and bound in love or friendship: "a tight–knit family"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer#Early_life Jun 28, 2010