poncho
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First: a rain poncho for my kid’s bike seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the road wasn’t silent—trekking poles clicking against stone, rain snapping against my poncho, the slide of rocks under my shoes and the chorus of “buen camino.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Once he was holding hands with a girl and once he traded hats with a field worker and walked right through us wearing a poncho and field hand’s sombrero.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
One soldier aided an older woman, her body wrapped in a poncho as the clouds thickened above.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
He took his rain poncho and folded it over and over again until it was only about eight inches wide and a foot long.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"I just hope that the Kates and Cathys have got their thermals and their rain ponchos because they might need them."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The mood inside the ground has completely changed and fans, wearing ponchos to stay dry, danced in the stands.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Wearing helmets and ponchos, the protesters, many of whom waved rainbow-colored Indigenous flags, marched toward the city center to the din of firecrackers.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
I’d been out of that place more than thirty years, but one sight of this kid, and it all came roaring back in a tsunami of Day-Glo ponchos and organic lentils.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
