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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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"Augusta has given me some of the greatest moments of my life, and I'd love nothing more than to chase another green jacket at such a special place."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“You’re not going to one-for-one sub in a guy that’s going to be wearing a gold jacket one day, in Davante,” Stafford said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Ilija Srdanović appears an unlikely opponent for Serbia's long-serving leader, Aleksandar Vučić, arriving for an interview by motorbike sporting a fluorescent yellow jacket emblazoned with pro-student slogans.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

So if you complimented somebody’s jacket, a more acceptable response might be, “Thanks! My sister helped me pick it out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

He pulls a small rectangular package out of the pocket of his suit jacket and hands it to me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

One of them is this place called Golden Age that has all these old French tour jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Tracksuit bottoms, jackets, hoodies and T-shirts sit untouched.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Video footage apparently taken by a member of the public and posted to X showed several agents wearing HSI jackets outside Omar's Washington residence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

It has been selling an assortment of other core ’90s wardrobe staples like baby tees, in addition to slip dresses and leather jackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Early in the morning on September 24, 1938, Valentina, Polina, and Marina, wearing leather jackets and fur-lined boots, took off from Moscow into a clear sky.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

Newly jacketed Hall of Famer Joe Thomas was added to the Browns’ Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021

The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017

Surely not, he thought; though he could barely move, jacketed as he was to his seat by the wind.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White

If the sphere is charged and then the jacketing hemispheres fitted on it and removed, the sphere is found to be perfectly discharged.3 Numerous other demonstrations of this fact were given by Faraday.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London


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