They are linked to a close-knit network of parents across the United States and abroad who are choosing do-it-yourself deliveries.

People have close-knit social networks; in other words, your friends know each other, as well as knowing you.

To account for this, many roads and houses were built, continuing into the 20th century, forming the close-knit network of Victorian and Edwardian streets present today.

For example, most middle-class people do not belong to close-knit networks at all.

But they have passionate political views, a close-knit grass-roots network and the financial support of a handful of wealthy patrons.

Unlike traditional working-class communities they do not form close-knit networks and tend to keep themselves to themselves.

In this close-knit network "people have an intimate understanding of each other, and the threat of violence is a continuous force for preserving order..."

Even during the Depression, Harlem sustained the close-knit creative network that had coalesced in the Harlem Renaissance a generation earlier.

First, a strong close-knit network may be seen to function as a conservative force, resisting pressures to change from outside the network.

Some flexians work together in what Wedel calls "flex nets," close-knit networks that guard and share information.