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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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A glove discovered in her neighbourhood also yielded no DNA evidence.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Cartoon-sized glove gives Dodgers’ pitcher his mojo back.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Manager Dave Roberts and his pitching coaches haven’t been particularly forthcoming, either, feigning ignorance about the glove that looks as big as Sasaki’s head.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Among the Robinhood platinum card’s perks: A “white glove concierge service,” which lets customers request by text things like shared private jet flights or tickets to sports and music events.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

I take the invisible ball out of my glove and fire it back to the infield.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

The initial search focused on video footage that showed a masked person wearing gloves and a backpack appearing to tamper with a camera at her front door the morning she disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

In 2018 Andrade said she sold her UFC clothes, backpack and gloves because she was struggling to get sponsors, but added that she was "paid really well" in the promotion.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The white gloves are an obvious tell, even before you even get to early film shorts that the House of Mouse would rather you forget or overlook altogether.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

Dino saved all the signed bats and batting gloves that Brady and Trey won off Pujols and Trout, storing them in a room full of baseball memorabilia.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Alexander and Beowulf shakily threw down their gloves.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

During the song, her dancers covered her with white gloved hands, transforming her into the Venus De Milo, then a bride, and eventually an angel.

From BBC May 6, 2026

On a Wednesday in February in the Coachella Valley, more than two dozen farmworkers weaved up and down rows of strawberries, their gloved hands flicking quickly to pluck the fruit and stash it in boxes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

She did not want to meet another Miss Glenda Fae Hawkins or Miss Susannah Sally Peters, had no desire to face their smiles and clucking and gloved hands.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

That was followed a heavy, awkward ball to Mohammad Siraj that left Siraj walking off wringing his hand in pain after gloving it behind to Jamie Smith.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

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

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

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2020

He wasn’t far from gloving a ball that snuck through the gate, either - an enduring issue for England’s No3.

From The Guardian Jul. 11, 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 Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)




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