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hook

[hook] / hʊk /




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If the trial goes on as scheduled, Paramount could be on the hook for more than $1 billion in ticking fees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

All you need to get started is a hook and a ball of yarn.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

I mean, sometimes the more extreme sounds are easier to hook into, like, you know, the Southern states or Boston or New York.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

For a second day, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of US states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

The final knife looks a little like a hook and is called a chip knife.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

It was a punch delivered in Atlanta on Sunday and felt all the way in Washington, smooth and fluid, like one of Sugar Ray Robinson’s left hooks or Muhammad Ali’s left jabs.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Dan Miller, a 43-year-old software developer in Raleigh, N.C., found the banana hooks he made to hang under his cabinet weren’t strong enough to support certain loads.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

He didn’t like composing radio hooks or fronting a traditional band.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Balds — fish lovers themselves — can consume hooks and sinkers when they gobble down their prey, potentially poisoning them, Koh said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

I thought: Could rats weave fish nets or make fish hooks?

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien




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