brolly
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At a UK demo of Alexa+, it responded, "actually, you can leave the brolly at home, with sunny skies and no rain in the forecast, you'll be sorted without it".
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Bigger, longer and — at an interminable 141 minutes — apparently uncut, “Circle” is an emotionally sterile lark, its wounds inflicted with brolly and bullwhip, a smirk and a shrug.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
With the movement having taken on the sobriquet of the Umbrella Revolution, the raincoat-clad Paddington Bear is showing up on protest-zone posters too, brolly in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2014
Also, don’t expect Americans to take you seriously if you refer to your umbrella as a brolly, and don’t attempt to call it a bumbershoot unless you can lend the term a Benedict Cumberbatch lilt.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2014
“Rummy! Don’t be soft. Poker. We’ll play for ciggies. For gosh sakes, put that brolly down, Brodatt, are you completely bonkers?”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
As the downpour caused the umbrella crop to sprout, the wind caused pedestrians to tighten grips on their hats and hoods as well as those brollies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Both men documented in London the processions of bankers, with their bowler hats and brollies; the crowds of working people, carrying coal or geese; and most of all, the fog, which powders their black-and-white prints.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
BST08:19 Uh oh, there are a few brollies out and James Keothavong, the chair umpire and brother of the retired British player Anne, is looking slightly perturbed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2015
They mingled with nuns dressed in all-white robes, sitting under the shade of their own black brollies.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2015
“Rain and brollies provide good cover. We’ll sneak out through the back of the building. It’s too dangerous going out the front. We can’t risk Fleetwood following and discovering that I’m staying in Bletchley.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
