lace
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Fairs says she has received thousands of messages from women about how her content has encouraged them to lace up their trainers, and believes recent trends of female success in ultra-running are just the start.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
She wears a pearl-trimmed French hood; a dark, square-necked gown with white lace, gold and pearl trim; a pearl necklace; and, with one exception, a pearl necklace with the pendant initials “AB” or “B.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Women in lace mantillas and gold jewelry pass on their way to somewhere ornate.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Since then, several technical studies and two test trips with a full-scale reproduction of the tapestry have been undertaken to meet the logistical challenge of transporting a work as delicate as lace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
He reached out and stirred the fire, his thin lace sharp with anxiety.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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The director laces a 16th-century period drama with a series of mysteries in his latest film, which centers on a samurai who rebels against the local warlord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Each hub brought together suppliers of laces, soles and fabric, as well as logistics firms that help to quickly turn designs into store-ready products and ship them out.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
"It feels like you're wearing big winter gloves every day, all the time so you can't actually feel what you're doing like zips and buttons and laces on your shoes."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
A spoonful of brown sugar becomes caramel as it melts; diced apples collapse into little pockets of warmth; cinnamon laces the air with something almost nostalgic.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
First she removed her sandals, the laces of which were tied together.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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Across the lot in an unused patch of pavement, pops of bright orange and yellow reach skyward toward the imposing barbed wire that’s laced atop metal security bars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
And Taylor Farms would certainly top the list for anyone glued to a toilet bowl lately, thanks to the company’s alleged indiscretion handling lettuce laced with the “explosive diarrhea” parasite.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
But as soon as he laced them up, he turned into France’s unstoppable weapon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
To some degree, the AI race is laced with inflation concerns for the stock market in the near term, as strong demand for chips has led to pricing power for companies that make them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026
Wash pulled his boots back on and laced them with trembling fingers.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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On Saturday, Belfast's Agyarko gets the opportunity he has craved since first lacing up the gloves when he faces IBF light-middleweight champion Josh Kelly in Saudi Arabia.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
So he decides to keep appearing in clubs to tell tales of his relationship woes, lacing the commentary with rueful remarks that are vaguely comic, though nothing he says is actually funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
It also feels like a moment — to use a sports metaphor, which I’m not an athlete — that you’re lacing up your shoes.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025
Skaters are lacing up their customized Stacy Adams boots, which are fully equipped with fiberglass wheels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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