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Meanings of tightly knit in English

Closely and firmly integrated.

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Examples for "tight-knit"
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You didn't have to join a tight-knit social network to see it.
Wired
2
Unsurprisingly, the essay has got tongues wagging in Australia's tight-knit writing community.
The Guardian
3
We were like a tight-knit family that looked out for each other.
Ebony
4
That's hard to do because it's so greedy and it's so tight-knit.
The Irish Times
5
He said in such a tight-knit community, someone must know something.
Radio NZ
Usage of tightly knit in English
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Its athletes and journalists, in particular, have operated as a tightly knit team.
News.com.au
2
In your small, tightly knit, highly competitive community in Kihara, passions run high.
The clouds beneath the sun
3
They were a tightly knit group that often spoke with one mind, one voice.
Sisters
4
With a tightly knit, snarling sound, the little car spun around and buzzed off.
Ladder of years: a novel
5
Yes, we're a tightly knit bunch in the History Department.
Evanly bodies
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Each incident has been scarring for the few hundred people in the tightly knit program.
Wired
7
But within the tightly knit Silicon Valley community, they have built formidable reputations in their fields.
Reuters
8
It was imminently, almost oppressively safe, as small and tightly knit as a Catholic school uniform.
The story of us
9
At our backs, behind the tightly knit rows protecting the standards, the drums beat on relentlessly.
The sun over breda
10
The glutenins, however, bond with each other in several ways to form an extensive, tightly knit network.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
11
In any case, expanding your social circle beyond a tightly knit clan is precisely where Facebook shines.
Wired
12
He knew from previous experience that nothing could be accomplished unless the ranks were tightly knit together.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
13
We're a tightly knit cabal, ferociously loyal and snottily proud of our risk-taking, high visibility, and humor.
Feminist dot com
14
The 10-year plan calls for a more tightly knit union and more sharing of the region's debt burden.
Reuters
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Like that book, it features secular lyrics, tightly knit sound patterns, allusive titles and close observation of particulars.
The Irish Times
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The Irish Catholics had established a small middle class, which overlapped with a strong and tightly knit political class.
True compass: a memoir
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