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lace

[lays] / leɪs /


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The crowd was awash in lace, ruffles, veils, elbow-length gloves and far more all-white than is typically seen after Labor Day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The actress marked the occasion by donning a stunning lace Schiaparelli gown featuring long sleeves and a high neckline.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

It was what we did for every birthday, and so it was tea hats and lace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

As she laid him back into his wrappings and began to lace him in, his face crumpled in betrayal and he opened his mouth.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Hershey has faced similar litigation over other seasonal Reese’s candies, including ghost-shaped chocolates without depicted facial features and football-shaped candies that lacked the laces shown on their packaging.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

Heading into the exhibition I was eager to see what 18th-century ribbons and laces if not frock coats and gowns would be displayed as ancillary objects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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

She listened to Taisin’s chattering teeth as she worked the wet laces, wanting to curse at the knots Taisin had tied.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

He cautioned, however, that the path forward was still laced with uncertainty about how markets would evolve around the technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the document was laced with malicious software.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The NBA’s very best teams tend to be led by generational superstars who have been anointed as basketball demigods since they first laced up their sneakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Miles laced his fingers together on his chest and stared at the ceiling of the gym, not answering.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

The lacing of the back was so extensive, and I had nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

A scrim of fine chains lacing the window, rippling like waves though there was no breeze.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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