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coat

[koht] / koʊt /






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She then recalls a woman from the agency wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and a pearl necklace appearing and taking her daughter.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Rita remembered that the shorter man had stuffed them inside his coat while he was yelling for the money.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

I experienced the Aritzia touch myself in January when I went gift-shopping for my wife—a winter birthday put that viral Super Puff coat in the consideration set—and a style adviser approached me almost immediately.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

She didn’t bring goggles or even a big coat to survive the cold, dusty nights.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The man in the trench coat is back on my sled and the buffalo is standing there.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Swaths of stubborn flies bother his mechanics as they work, and he’s had to redo paint jobs and clear coats tainted by the thick dust from the warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

"It's been excellent having the coats," said Dawn Prosser, manager of the Swindon night shelter.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

His heart sank as he saw two men dressed in the same long, dark leather coats and wide-brimmed hats.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"This tastes really sweet. It's almost like it's been coated in sugar," said Douyin influencer Liulianzi in a clip liked more than 17,000 times.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

One trend centered on the “chamoy pickle”—a hollowed-out jumbo dill pickle typically filled with spicy chips or sour candy, coated with the Mexican condiment chamoy and wrapped in a Fruit Roll-Up.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

GLUT1 can also recognize mannose, allowing the coated nanoparticles to use the same pathway to cross the blood-brain barrier.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

The fog coated the sky and filtered through the trees around them so it felt like they were encased in a tiny gray bubble.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Overhead, through the suspended lighting grid, you can see the raw concrete and steel construction, with its thick coating of spray-on fireproofing.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

"That's where we then come in, to give them the protective coating to effectively enable these new materials."

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Despite those large differences in charge, every experiment involving charged droplets produced detectable changes in the coating.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

When I look at Kareem’s bright eyes, my hard candy coating gives way to my gooey inside.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed




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