apron
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At one booth, visitors pointed their phones at a humanoid wearing an apron as it gingerly reached for a toy chicken drumstick before clamping down and lifting the fake meat into a bucket.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Shekhova met him wearing her house clothes: boots, a pink sweatshirt and an apron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He filmed a video of himself giving her an apron instead.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
We sat on the apron of the Rosebud Motel, looking across the muddy parking lot to where fans were gathered on the road above.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
She hung the apron on a peg by the stove as Peach put his napkin on his plate and pushed in his chair.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
The U.S. military has since 2019 spent hundreds of millions of dollars on upgrades for Muwaffaq Al-Salti and other facilities, according to U.S. federal contracting documents, laying aircraft aprons, taxiways, munitions depots and other infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Passengers in orange aprons and work gloves crowded around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In recent years, North Korean TV shows have featured men wearing aprons and doing housework - a sign of how much has changed there.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Cooks in tie-dyed aprons and sky-blue baseball caps move in double time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
She had also brought bonnets, aprons, and shoes.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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