coat
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One night in college, she remembers eating an entire pizza, a bag of cookies, and a gallon of mint-chip ice cream while standing in her kitchen, before even removing her coat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Cold noodles need a dressing with enough substance to coat every curve and ridge, but enough brightness to keep the bowl from feeling stodgy after a few hours in the fridge.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Images circulated at the time showed Abu Safiya walking towards an Israeli armoured vehicle in his white doctor's coat through the rubble before being taken for interrogation.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
All 182 guest rooms were given a fresh coat of dusty rose paint, new custom carpet, furniture and upgraded bathrooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Oliver wasn’t wearing a scarf or gloves, but at least he’d put on a dark coat and a store-bought hat.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Erwin gives the whole project a kind of gritty, visceral approach — very “Game of Thrones” in red coats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
He led me into a cream-colored bungalow he called his pathogen laboratory, where two workers in lab coats prepared milk samples.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
I’m very pale, so I had to go in for a few different coats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
But it also has meant that she ends up twinning with her father, who is fond of wearing black leather jackets and trench coats.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Hastily we struggled into our coats and filed again through the cold corridors.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Within days of the pool’s reopening this month, algae blooms coated the floor and colored the surface, drawing spectators and online mockery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
They then coated the particles with long molecular chains that acted like sticky connectors and allowed them to assemble into larger, ordered structures known as nanoparticle superlattices.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
While “Blue Heron” may not come coated in the feel-good gloss of “The Sheep Detectives,” these two films are mirror images — not two in a trend, but in direct conversation with one another.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
Now, he was coated top to bottom with ash and soot; his hair, his face—even his eyelashes were coated in a fine gray powder.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Party wings are another reliable crowd-pleaser: Farmer Focus wings come pre-split, grill quickly and only need a coating of Tabañero BBQ sauce near the end so it can caramelize and get sticky.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for damage to newly applied coating on the bottom of the pool.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
His roughly $16 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool became a national news story when algae blooms clouded the water and pieces of the pool’s new coating floated to the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
MS damages myelin, the fatty protective coating that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
Their favorite places were painted with a thick coating of urine.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
