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  • Rather than choose between the one with the cone area-of-effect (AoE) but the lower damage-per-second (DPS) and higher knock-back chance, do I choose the one with the cylindrical AoE, higher DPS and lower knock-back chance?

    Star Trek Online Review | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • Now in August last year, two months before I got the final knock-back

    Archive 2007-08-01 Zoe Brain 2007

  • He needs to improve his overall strength, as Beck can not be considered a knock-back tackler, especially since he tends to make too many low tackles working near the pile.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • In a column on brown ales, Eric Asimov, the drinks writer for the New York Times, wrote a line that could serve as a beer elegy: "Mild brown ales, the knock-back drink of thirsty coal miners and dock workers, are not so appealing to post-industrial office workers, who are less thirsty and more aspirational."

    Wine Now More Popular than Beer | Impact Lab 2007

  • Now in August last year, two months before I got the final knock-back

    Passports Round 2 - Section 9 Zoe Brain 2007

  • He had his own reasons: if he ever wanted to use me in future for off-colour official work, this knock-back would inspire me to new flights of rhetoric in telling him to disappear up his own rear end and without leaving a clue of thread to find his way out.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • The ice was cutting by the Cape, a knock-back for us all;

    The Sealing Cruise of the Lone Flier 1968

  • That kind of knock-back, up-front things you want to see your defense do.

    SFGate: Top News Stories dwhite@sfchronicle.com (David White 2011

  • Cabaye finished off a knock-back by substitute Sylvain Marveaux to end the brave resistance of Roberto Martinez's men, who have now lost six in a row.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • I have had a very good spell in my career and it's a long time since I have had a very serious knock-back so, when it comes, it wounds you.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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