collar
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Instead, it has a characteristic dark collar marking.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Uniforms that sprouts porcupine quills at the tug of a collar?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Service industry - or "white collar" jobs - take a larger share of the economy and there has been a decline in traditional manufacturing and other "blue collar" work such as manual labour.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“It needs a ruffle,” she says, caught up in the process, before adding a frilly collar and glittering vintage brooch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Masterji Thakur took a deep breath and pulled down his collar.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
While some lament the decline of suits and ties, others are relieved to ditch the starchy collars and pantyhose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
AFP previously investigated a multilingual trend of videos stealing seniors’ identities to bait users into sympathetic purchases of slippers and dog collars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Both Hole’s Courtney Love and Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland claimed to be the first to perform in vintage, threadbare dresses with Peter Pan collars and puff sleeves, accessorized with knee socks and Mary Janes.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Shein faces competition from Temu, a Chinese e-commerce company offering goods including bathing suits and dog collars at ultra-low prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Their collars clacked together like crab claws, and they let out this awful squeal as they ran.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Big stock owners are hedging with collared positions—selling upside calls to buy downside puts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
She wore a long skirt from Aritzia, a collared blue tank, a belt and loafers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
But if you run on the colder side, she also features flaring long-sleeve jerseys that range between off the shoulder and a collared neckline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
In the school library that day, I joined a circle of twenty-two Harper students—all African American, mostly juniors and seniors—who were seated in chairs and on couches, dressed in khakis and collared shirts.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Tagging and collaring is an underfunded process, said Domingo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Their small, fuzzy bodies made collaring them difficult, too.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2024
Revving the engines, they head out to check the line of 37 live traps they’ve been running since February in hopes of capturing and collaring Canada lynx.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
Fortunately, another research team was carrying out a collaring project to track matriarch elephants.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2021
The muck seemed to climb me, rising up my arms, my chest, collaring my throat like a noose.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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