comb
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With the blade, clippers, shears, comb, brush, spray bottle and styling creams as his tools, he sets his eye on hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Locked away in their quarantine pod, the isolation proved the perfect opportunity to comb through hours of archival footage, stitching a story from B-roll and memories, both of which Eleanor had plenty of.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
As artificial intelligence makes it easier for scammers to comb publicly available data and mine hacked emails to carry out new attacks, it’s important to be vigilant about your digital security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a simulation, Nvidia used the Red team agent to comb through its environment and identify an attack path it could execute on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
I quickly put on my best dress and comb my hair into a bun.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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A travel set of marbled beard and mustache combs that’s as handsome as dad himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Frequency combs, which earned a Nobel Prize in 2005, can be imagined as an incredibly accurate ruler made not from a solid material, but from light or radio waves.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025
Karol G, “Ivonny Bonita” Karol’s history-minded, history-making “Tropicoqueta” LP lovingly combs through the generations of Latin music that made her a global superstar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Polygenic scoring combs through a person's DNA and calculates how likely they may be to develop a disease.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
As she combs the emerald bushes, she looks for telltale signs—eggs no bigger than pinpricks, or leaf edges scalloped by the jaws of an inching worm.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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Now, as Piecha combed the web for other places the bots might have gathered, she discovered a similar message, buried in an online coding service called RubyGems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, agents from the New York FBI office combed through a trove of documents received from the Met Police, following the search of Bayoumi's properties in Birmingham, the BBC has learned.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
As crisis intervention deputies combed through the juvenile’s online activity and searched his residence, they found he had an online connection with an Illinois juvenile with similarly “concerning interests,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The May PCE report isn’t likely to be taken for granted by the market; it will be combed carefully and methodically for signs to either add to or dial back rate-hike bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
I gave him a half smile and combed my hair with my fingers, smoothing it back and down, sitting on the edge of my full bed.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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His manager’s assistants and others on his team are combing through requests, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Maybe the tickly moustache isn't helping his allergies - and combing it won't make much difference.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Pancho’s brother called up the leaders of the self-defense milita, and soon 200 men were combing the hills by flashlight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Mayor Lisa Brown said authorities were combing the city block by block to assess damages and potential reignition, and couldn't tell people yet when they could return home.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Her newly freed fro still bore the traces of Bennie’s handiwork, but Sierra didn’t feel like combing it out.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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