If these muscles are weak, they cannot hold the kneecap in the correct position.
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Kneecap
/ˈniːˌkæp/
Synonyms for "kneecap" (10 found)
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11 entrieskneecap dislocationkneecap fracturekneecap injurykneecap painkneecap replacementkneecap someonekneecap the budgetkneecap the programkneecap trackingkneecapping incidentkneecapping tactic
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I'm worried your carelessness will kneecap our chances of success.
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The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
Source: wiktionary
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
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