collar
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Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“It’s really a white collar sport now,” said Los Angeles club coach Michael Dyer, who uses a sliding fee scale to keep less-affluent 12-year-olds on his team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
True to form, Joe Lycett wore a polka-dot shorts suit with a purple feather collar.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Gnocchi wears a pink collar with his name on it, an air tag and a red harness with a leash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
There was a note attached to his collar.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
These characters, representing mythical beings, are ornamented with fine drapery, ruff collars and jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ben said The Grazing Project was "quite pioneering" in the sheer number of collars it uses.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ben said training cows to wear the collars had opened up the possibility of using sheep and cows together to rewild new parts of Jersey.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Everyone was extremely friendly and on the fashion front, no popped collars in sight — only gym clothes and cool-looking fencing gear: mask, chest protector and underarm protector.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Before pedestrians could open their umbrellas, it rushed down collars, pockets, and shoes.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
This is my way of telling you I forgot to wear a collared shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
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’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
He undid one of the buttons of his collared shirt and looked down at the floor.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Fortunately, another research team was carrying out a collaring project to track matriarch elephants.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2021
The UK-based non-profit organisation, Fauna & Flora International, has been involved in efforts to protect the Ustyurt population by establishing a new anti-poaching ranger team and using satellite collaring to monitor saiga movements.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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