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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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When I traveled to New York, I got my very first Issey Miyake jacket from the MoMA Design Store and at the time I didn’t know much about the brand.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

But the pricing is anything but snobby, which has helped make its $148 Effortless Pants an office staple and its Super Puff down jacket, starting at around $250, go viral.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Suit trousers were paired with a leather jacket, a boater hat and ballet slippers.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

The photos published by TMZ also show Thornton, who is wearing a black jacket embroidered with the “Wheel of Fortune” logo on his sleeve, appearing to type into the chat room.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

I figured what I carried would speak louder than words, anyway, so I took the bundle from my jacket and revealed the gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“This is brilliant,” said Joe Sever, 36, a medical sales representative who brought his son and twin daughters, who were wearing matching denim jackets with their names bedazzled on the backs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

"Some people had to jump without lifebuoys or life jackets," one young man, Efe Multici, told CNN Turk.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

She works with the side of the factory that repairs old jackets sent in by customers.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Hana shows me pictures of other people who were in the Black Panthers, and when I see the black jackets and berets, I think I have a good costume idea.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

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

At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.

From Washington Post Jul. 29, 2022

These bullets are often jacketed by a harder metal like copper or steel.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2018

Surprised, Peanut hesitated, then broke for his basket, not noticing that Ben trailed him and not noticing that a flight jacketed figure trailed Ben on the sidelines.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

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




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