fleece

You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

His outfit, an Off White hoodie and a fleece bucket hat with a tortoise on the front, is just as uplifting and whimsical as his attitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

They won’t tell AI just to look for a “black zip-up fleece”; they will tell it that they’re going hiking next week in the Smoky Mountains and need a slim-fitting fleece to keep them warm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

I crawl onto my favorite beanbag chair and grab the fleece blanket that somebody left in a basket on the bottom of the bookshelf.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Homeowners struggle to get a permit to add a bedroom, and taxpayers can’t get through to the agency that fleeces them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

You can also buy hoodies, half-snap fleeces, dog leashes and dopp kits featuring the A24 logo.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2023

Many of those who got in touch suggested fleeces, jumpers and thermal vests are the essential extra layers of clothing that mean they can delay switching on their heating.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2022

The two were going over and over among the rolled fleeces.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

“But we can’t do that if the states that are administering those programs are allowing those programs to be fleeced by fraudsters.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Related: ‘I have lost nearly everything’: My mother’s trustee changed her $1 million will and my attorney fleeced me.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Nine years ago, I made a programme for the BBC Scotland Investigates strand which exposed through secret filming the way SMT fleeced its victims.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

“I started realizing that these DSOs are just fleecing the doctors, like totally taking advantage of them,” said Williams, who amplifies his objections by co-hosting the podcast Just Say No to the DSO.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026

It dug into the fraud that purportedly precedes the fleecing of U.S. antipoverty programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

They have been accused of fleecing ordinary people by charging extortionate amounts for cash withdrawals.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023

Burt employed bizarre accounting methods in order to conceal his fleecing of the Osage.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann