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But it also helps us understand why a crumpled sock in the middle of the living room or dirty dishes on the kitchen counter makes the exhausted woman in your life crash out.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Higher borrowing costs would sock it to home buyers, heavy credit-card users and anyone needing a loan.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures are trading about 10% below year-ago levels thanks to strong domestic production and comfortable spring weather that enabled traders to sock away fuel in storage caverns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

My left sock was developing a hole in the toe.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Shortly after, a heavyset man wearing gray sweats, white socks and black sandals and a black hooded sweatershirt exits the passenger-side door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

However, any toy promo from McDonald’s in December would have a high bar to clear after last year’s “Grinch”-themed socks, available with a “Grinch”-themed meal, sold quickly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Guests’ left-behind socks and T-shirts surface weeks later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It also argues that White Fox's advertisements for its four-striped clothes and White Fox-branded socks feature people wearing "genuine" Adidas items.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But now Dad expects me to live with Andre and his gross socks all the time?

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

On August 18, 2017, a new age in astronomy dawned, appropriately, with a tweet: “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”

From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2019

On 18 August, astronomer J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas at Austin began the public rumour mill when he tweeted, “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”

From Nature ● Aug. 23, 2017

He confessed in 1951 about the overload, “Two drawers are full, so I’m moving my sox over.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015

“They’ve got a couple of big hits the last couple of nights,” said Red sox catcher A.J.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2014

"This is great luck," he remarked, seating himself in the opposite easy chair with an enforced extension of immaculate pumps and silken sox.

From Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell

Winter storm Fern, which socked the Midwest and Northeast, likely boosted the number of claims filed.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

There is a no-shoes policy in the office, the floor is lined with ornate rugs for socked feet, and a chef named Fausto serves lunch six days a week for its 250 employees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

CJ Abrams socked a two-run home run in the seventh off Dodgers reliever Jack Dreyer, his second in as many games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025

The Angels, as a whole, socked 19 home runs across the eight-game stretch — the power appeared to help them surge to third place in a division more than up for grabs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2025

As was his habit, he padded downstairs in socked feet, eased Grandma’s front door open, and plucked the latest issue of the Logan County Gazette off the porch.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

You say you don’t have any money saved, but when you start socking away funds — which you should do as soon as possible — I’d recommend getting a high-yield savings account.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026

But rather than freeing up more room in our monthly budget, I proposed taking the difference and socking it away in savings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

Lenders in countries as far away as Germany and Japan are socking away hundreds of millions of dollars in anticipation of loans going bad.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024

The first issue of Captain America featured Cap socking Adolf Hitler in the jaw, some nine months before the U.S. entered WWII.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024

The snow came down with hard gusts, socking the sides of the pickup and blotting out the windshield.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt