stripe
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EBT cards are more susceptible to theft because most don't have a chip, only a magnetic stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Eventually you think, oh, how many more combinations of a stripe can I do?" he admits, before adding, "But so far so good."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Over time, his revolutionary stripe of paint would reach billions of people and guide drivers across the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, thin red stripe and blue upper body.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
It has maroon socks and shorts and a gold jersey with a thin maroon stripe on each side.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
Thieves have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Costume designer Maya Edmond dresses Big Ant thematically: white tees when he’s trying to be good, black duds when his demons are winning and comic book-y jailbird stripes during his pivotal teenage arrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"So you can still see stripes on the site, if not the overall graffiti."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I’ll have your stripes, Short! You’ll spend the next hundred years on drain duty!”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
At Mitsuwa Marketplace, the sprawling Japanese supermarket outside Chicago, Pastry House Hippo sells a frankfurter inside a beautiful yeasty shell, striped with ketchup.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
A quick scroll through TikTok reveals numerous accounts, many of them created in the past few weeks, sharing photos and videos of an elusive black-and-white feline wearing the famous, towering, crooked red-and-white striped hat.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The black-and-white striped mosquitoes were first detected in 2013 in California, likely arriving via human travel and cargo transport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The photo shows a vacationing couple seated in striped deck chairs beneath a brightly coloured parasol on a beach.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Doves flew up from their perches, lizards darted out of the way, a squirrel with a striped tail leaped up a branch, and a bush fowl took to the wing from out of nowhere.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
We bought a bunch of road rental companies — all those orange barricades and cones and striping you see on the roads.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
If the lane striping isn’t perfect, though, the lane-keeping assist sometimes disables itself, so I don’t rely on it completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025
“Crews will use these partial closures to re-position the existing K-rail and place temporary striping to allow for construction activities in the southbound lane,” Caltrans officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2024
With his friend beside him he stepped confidently out the courtyard gate, into the long shadows striping the Street of the Goldsmiths.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
