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Examples
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On stage they sport the looks from their heyday, including door-knocker earrings and custom varsity jackets.
...And You Don't Stop John Jurgensen 2011
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The brass door-knocker was in the shape of a fairy.
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Mr. Fenty, a prodigious door-knocker when he won office in 2006, has managed to anger significant swathes of the electorate through what voters see as an aloof, arrogant style.
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I didn't care to hear about Cardigan - the mention of the name was enough to set my jealous bile working, for it reminded me that my darling Elspeth wasn't always the dutiful and loving wife she pretended to be, and heaven knew how many randified admirers had been beating our door-knocker in my absence.
Fiancée 2010
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He stood glaring at me with a face like a door-knocker.
Watershed 2010
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Men emerge from the truck and knock on the door, with the door-knocker I used to play with as a child.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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I've been a door-knocker, a phone canvasser and a poll-watcher.
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I don't know for sure because I am just a door-knocker, but the lists we've been given have always just been our own union membership lists.
Labor War: Change To Win Hammers AFSCME For "Lying" In "Deplorable" Pro-Hillary Leaflet 2009
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It took Obama, a seasoned community organizer, serious church-goer, and card-carrying member of the digital age, to seize on technology as the 21st Century door-knocker and the World Wide Web as the new political pulpit.
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I don't know for sure because I am just a door-knocker, but the lists we've been given have always just been our own union membership lists.
AFSCME's Hillary Leaflet -- Brought To You By "Your Union" 2009
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