coat
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Eunson said the sheep had a double coat of wool which protected them against the islands' harsh winter weather.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Under a black coat, the petite and poised Navarrette sits on a stool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
“An oversized entry gallery with a coat closet provides plenty of room for a home office or library overlooking the elegant sunken living room,” the listing adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
I experienced the Aritzia touch myself in January when I went gift-shopping for my wife—a winter birthday put that viral Super Puff coat in the consideration set—and a style adviser approached me almost immediately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
My coat with the precious contents of its pockets had never yet been off my back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Others copped to bringing back years-old coats, kid-rejected snacks, used beach chairs and $800 Oriental rugs—all with no issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He coats the eggs with glue secreted from his legs and attaches clusters of egg sacs to his own body while they develop.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
"There are lots of gardening appropriate silhouettes on the runways," she says, including aprons, waterproof materials and trench coats.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
After the flower is sufficiently “crispy,” she sits at an L-shaped desk overlooking her makeshift garden and coats individual petals with resin up to six times, curing them under a UV light between coats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They wore white coats and hairnets over their hair.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
"This tastes really sweet. It's almost like it's been coated in sugar," said Douyin influencer Liulianzi in a clip liked more than 17,000 times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
One trend centered on the “chamoy pickle”—a hollowed-out jumbo dill pickle typically filled with spicy chips or sour candy, coated with the Mexican condiment chamoy and wrapped in a Fruit Roll-Up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Electrolyzers operating with desalinated seawater or acidic solutions currently require expensive titanium components coated with gold or platinum.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Henkel's cold seal solution is already available for packaging manufacturers to apply to barrier coated paper.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The flakes are falling huge and fast and the whole neighborhood is coated in white.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
The anchovy sizzled itself into the oil coating those browned alliums.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Overhead, through the suspended lighting grid, you can see the raw concrete and steel construction, with its thick coating of spray-on fireproofing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The powders and the coating are carried by gas and brought together in a chemical reaction.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
A thick coating of the warm flakes covered their heads and shoulders.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
