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coat

[koht] / koʊt /






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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

The scene where Harris approached a captured bug, rocking an ankle-length black trench coat with his blonde hair in a close crew cut, was the closest “Troopers” came to clubbing the audience in the ribs.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

A little while ago, he bought a leather shearling Double RL coat for the express purpose of wearing it in Switzerland a half-century from now.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

In a few moments Jop reappeared, making a very pretty brunette in long coat and kerchief, a fur muff hiding his hands.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“My closet is full of winter coats, you know what I mean?”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

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

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

"We have coats, fleeces, t-shirts, even shorts and trousers."

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

They all share big yellow eyes, but no two coats of fur are the same.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

"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

Hence the cold seal solution, in which enough pressure is applied for the barrier coated paper to be bonded against itself.

From BBC Jul. 27, 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

Liyana had a stomachache when they learned it so she kept picturing the inside of her stomach coated with silver.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

The powders and the coating are carried by gas and brought together in a chemical reaction.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

According to four crew members, the unusually high number of sorties by the carrier’s aircraft wore down some of the special nonskid coating on the deck’s surface.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

The researchers also identified a potential way to reduce this sugar-rich coating, potentially making cancer cells easier for the immune system to detect and eliminate.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

One time he was so desperate, he sucked the coating off chocolate-covered raisins, even though he hated raisins.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks




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