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Let’s celebrate that, even as we gird for more battles to come.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Doing so would help investors gird against volatility that might follow.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

But such extreme conditions are rare and individual homeowners can take steps to gird themselves against more-common wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

But we’re going to have to talk about it soon, so gird your loins, reader.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

But when audiences girded their loins for the sequel—this one as lavishly supported by glossy publishers as its earlier version was disavowed—there was a single character whose zippy quippiness was most anticipated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Tynecastle rubbed its eyes and then girded its loins.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, both nations have girded themselves for a lengthy confrontation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025

European shares closed higher, led higher by mining stocks as investors girded themselves for the U.S.

From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2023

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

While software stocks on the list like Zoom, Okta and the Trade Desk have strong numbers, they are girding for a widely expected battle with AI.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

With daylight-saving time set to begin this Sunday, Americans will once again be girding themselves for the “spring forward” ritual of setting their clocks an hour ahead and potentially losing some sleep.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

As protests rekindle across Iran’s universities and an American fleet builds up offshore, Iranians are girding themselves for the chaos and violence that might unfold if the ruling regime is actually brought down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

The night concluded with an enthusiastic performance by Doja Cat on an outdoor stage in the shadow of the David Geffen Galleries, the lights girding its massive concrete underbelly like stars in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025

At the camp of Cluny the Scourge, the rat army was girding itself up for war.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.

From The New Yorker ● May 12, 2015

Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stood up and cast open his long black cloak, and behold! he was clad in mail beneath, and girt with a long sword, great-hilted in a sheath of black and silver.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien