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American politicians have tied themselves into knots trying to find negative things to say about Canada’s universal single-payer healthcare system.

Collet-Serra knots that thread with a third-act scene of unexpected tenderness, where Ramona and the woman do what people and monsters so rarely do: talk.

Detroit’s Manuel Margot, also briefly a member of last year’s Dodgers team, then knotted the score again with an RBI single off Tanner Scott in the ninth.

Most everyone has, at one point or another, tied themselves in rationalization knots to avoid uttering the phrase, "I was wrong."

On a blistering summer day, Aduba quickly styled her hair in Bantu knots as she prepared to trudge to another round of back-to-back auditions, certain more nos were on the way.