bob
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During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Smith, a 64-year-old who sported a blond bob, had been 16 when she got married in the 1970s.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Team GB capped off a disappointing bobsleigh campaign at the Winter Olympics with a "devastating" seventh-place finish in the four-man bob event.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Pilot Jakob Mandlbauer was stretchered off after the bob hurtled down the track for a good 30 seconds on its side.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
They were covered in a slick moss and tended to bob or rotate alarmingly when stepped on.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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And by the 1920s, women with bobbed hair came to represent female independence and rebellion.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
On a recent morning, two surfers bobbed up and down on their boards directly in front of the new Club Med.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Hours after that chocolate spread bobbed through the cabin, the Artemis II crew disappeared behind the moon and briefly lost contact with society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Most of us stood very still, as though afraid that if if we bobbed too much, we’d shake the music from our heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
He thrashed about for a few seconds and shortly after, the ice saw and spear bobbed up to the surface.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Scott said, such as head bobbing, swaying and pacing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
An AI-generated video shows a crowd of young - mostly black - men, wearing balaclavas and padded jackets, slipping down a water slide into a dirty swimming pool with litter bobbing on the surface.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Those who survived then spent hours bobbing in life jackets or clinging to other floatation devices while awaiting rescue, the 53-year-old lawyer said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
“You can’t hear it without tapping a toe, bobbing a head or getting up and doing the full choreography,” said Will Coss, executive producer of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
My brain feels like a carousel, spinning around and around and bobbing up and down, and the longer it spins, the harder it becomes to sleep.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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