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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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I have a fancier fleece blanket that should work nicely for Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s cape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But last month, he found himself permanently banned because of "fraudulent activity, such as selling counterfeit items" after listing a used North Face fleece.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“I think something like Infinity Vision is a joke to fleece moviegoers into thinking they’re getting a premium experience when they’re really not,” Storch said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Mama sits in her checkered fleece robe, tense on the edge of her bed.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Prices reached a 10-year high earlier this year, and comes after some farmers burnt fleeces in protest against how little they were being paid.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

Three generations of the Hartley family, wearing the matching blue fleeces introduced by the business 15 years ago, are stood inside the shop.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

“Down there near the riverbank,” she said, “where the bushes grow thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Go fetch me some of their shining wool.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

So in March, he emailed the inmate he pinpointed as the one who fleeced Monk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

There’s a big industry built around the secondhand market, and if you look in the right places, you can find a good deal without getting fleeced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

A disgraced funeral director's bank accounts and assets have been frozen, as prosecutors seek to recover cash fleeced from his victims.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

And then there’s the annual plowing of millions in DWP surplus dollars into the City Hall piggy bank, which convinces ratepayers they’re being fleeced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

You might say that fleecing California’s cradle-to-grave state is like taking candy from a baby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

“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

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

Ippei Mizuhara’s fleecing of Shohei Ohtani was straightforward for the most part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

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

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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