jacket
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Hikers and urban walkers are wearing them on socks and jacket collars; parents are tacking them onto kids’ hats and backpacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Others she donates or sells, including recently getting £30 for a men's Barbour jacket.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
"While you're here looking for a school uniform, mum might see a jacket, dad might see some trainers," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Those foundations can begin with something as simple as learning to put on a jacket, a common milestone for a preschooler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
He wore a huge army jacket that drowned his too-thin frame, and I could tell from his sharp cheekbones and hollow cheeks that he didn’t get enough food.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Columbia Sportswear is giving away a 40-foot “survival bunker” stocked with puffer jackets, hiking shoes, jars of food, and a robotic dog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Saying she wants to give “every bit of energy I have” to Theranos, Holmes shows off her closet, which contains black jackets and turtlenecks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Under trees, volunteers in yellow reflector jackets stood their ground helping those overcome by the fumes.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Tracksuit bottoms, jackets, hoodies and T-shirts sit untouched.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
No cigarette stubs, no jackets or combs—especially male ones—can be left behind.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Newly jacketed Hall of Famer Joe Thomas was added to the Browns’ Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021
Surprised, Peanut hesitated, then broke for his basket, not noticing that Ben trailed him and not noticing that a flight jacketed figure trailed Ben on the sidelines.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023
Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The object of jacketing is to prevent the loss of heat from the steam within the cylinder by radiation.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
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