sock
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Stokes came to the post-match media conference with blood seeping through his sock.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Uganda's Samuel Simba Cherop lost his shoe and had to run the remaining 15 laps with an increasingly soggy sock on his left foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
One smart strategy is to count out six months of expenses and sock that away, then line up more to keep depositing into that account as time rolls forward.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
Sometimes a tall sock and a short one; sometimes a Paw Patrol relic from toddlerhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
"I'm going to put you in the sock now."
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
"I think she is going to blow our socks off," Gyllenhaal told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I am really, really proud. Everyone worked their socks off, day in, day out. The guys just didn't stop from day one to the end."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
She’s packed her suitcase too, full of socks she’ll throw away by the end of tour, and a wardrobe almost entirely of black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ranging from bicycles to socks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Akira pulled off one of her shoes and socks, and soaked the sock in water before wrapping it loosely around the burn.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
It was the first time a Yankee starter allowed four homers since James Paxton on July 26, 2019, at Fenway Park against the Boston Red sox.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
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
"I'll soon be havin' a plenty o' sox and moccasins made up."
From Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North by Dillon Wallace
“As satisfying as it may feel to some people to see Meta get socked by this, at the end of the day it’s going to come back and bite you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Vietnamese savers have socked away around 400 tonnes of the precious metal at home, according to government auditors.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025
She also opened a brokerage account and socked away the money from her pandemic- stimulus check.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
She socked away a dollar, sometimes two, from each week’s grocery money.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
The first five years of retirement can be crucial as you transition from getting a regular paycheck and socking away money to actually spending some of your hard-earned savings.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 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
