cotton

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The food and drink offerings lean playful and nostalgic, with cotton candy, popcorn, loaded milkshakes, cocktails, mocktails and plenty of other treats to keep the fun going between games.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Respectively done on English paper and Indian cotton, each combines techniques from Qing dynasty bird-and-flower painting, Mughal court art and European natural-history studies, not to mention pigments from England, China and India.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The consul general had been responding to a Times editorial supporting a boycott of products made with cotton produced in the Xinjiang region of China due to the use of forced labor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"We can use cotton, we can use wool, we can use leather," he says, of CreateMe's adhesive-based process.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

I flattened it out as best I could, pushing it down, tugging the sweater around my waist, but there was no real concealing it beneath the thin cotton dress.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom