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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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While recent increases in Chinese glove average selling prices have allowed Malaysian manufacturers to raise prices, their structural cost disadvantage continues to weigh on competitiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Public IB downgrades the Malaysian rubber glove sector to underweight from neutral.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Early in the second, a right hook knocked Hrgovic off-balance and his glove touched the canvas.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

From among the trees, Dodgers reliever Kyle Hurt’s glove shot up and secured the ball.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

While the rest of the Bandits continued to search for Jason’s glove, Joe and Frank went over to the bleachers.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

She and a dozen colleagues don cotton gloves, roll up their sleeves and plant themselves on cheap plastic stools for the task of separating out the valuable, intact mushrooms from the busted ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

"I was sitting there watching her put her gloves in the centre of the ring and it's like a story," she said.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Draped in a torn white skirt and black fishnet gloves to complement, she wailed “I hate when girls die.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

After noon dinner in a landscape of steaming innards, coiling sausage, and long pans of scrapple, Eugene Hammond was suddenly before us, drawing on his driving gloves, lowering his goggles.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Roebuck immediately recognized the long gun in the man’s gloved hands.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

A gloved hand comes out of the picture to grab them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

During a stop at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, an owl perched on her gloved arm made her squeal like the girl she had been during her first visit there on a grade-school field trip.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

He takes a small step toward me, his gloved hand sliding slowly up the length of the pool cue, his eyes cautious as my heart begins to race.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

"This business is very significant because it's been here since 1862. It's the last of the old gloving businesses in Yeovil," he said.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2023

But Jesse Winker took a circuitous route to gloving it and Rengifo recognized it, hustling to second for a double.

From Seattle Times Aug. 5, 2022

The Santa Margarita shortstop couldn’t have played it any better, gloving the ball and firing it to first.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2022

In public, we now cover and constrain ourselves as never before, masking our faces, gloving our hands.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2020

They could not but smile, but waited for the king, who, when he had had his laugh out, explained the allusion to the Conqueror’s leather dressing and gloving lineage.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson




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