pillow
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With the newly imposed tariffs, a normal markup would bring the price of that pillow to somewhere between $86 and $90, Osgood told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
She leaves love letters on his pillow with language like, “You are all that matters to me” and “I want to bring you joy.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
As investors wait for Wednesday’s inflation data, many remain cautious; “sleep with one eye open, hold your pillow tight.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"The questions that you ask yourself, the moments where your head hits the pillow at night and it's just you in your room, what's going on inside between those two ears?"
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
So I grab a blanket, curl up against the corner pillow, and stay.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Sales of nonfood items—throw pillows, kitchen gadgets and apparel—tend to garner higher margins and aren’t categories where Walmart already dominates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Hundreds of others, armed with mats, tents and pillows, had done the same.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
According to the Hisbah, the support package a couple receives includes essential household items needed to establish a new home: beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, furniture and food supplies.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Reusable ice packs, freezer blocks or cooling pillows may help some people feel more comfortable.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Two metal cots, two blankets, two thin pillows.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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“He was wafted bodily up onto the wall and into the mural itself. He felt himself pillowed on clouds, and saw stretching before him a grand panorama of palaces and pavilions,” wrote Pu.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
I raced through steep pine forests pillowed with heavy snow and frozen aspens, the Wasatch mountains rolling by in swirls of purple and brilliant white.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2016
So, in Bright Star, Keats is not just Romantic but romantic too: head pillowed upon fair Fanny’s breast, mooning about in blue velvet tails, he essentially speaks in his own verse.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2012
I let go of the towel pillowed under my head, and my arm drifted off the bench to float weightless in midair.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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The musical orchestration pillowing their voices is lovely, the singing sincere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Kaede built the small fire as quickly as she could, and Con pulled Shae’s sleeping form toward it, pillowing her head on a rolled-up blanket.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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I lie facedown on her bed, pillowing my head on my arms, completely drained in the aftermath of a hellish morning.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Kaede rolled over, pillowing her head on her bent arm to look at him.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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He lay back, pillowing his head on his hands.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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