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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat.

From Salon May 17, 2026

His outfit, an Off White hoodie and a fleece bucket hat with a tortoise on the front, is just as uplifting and whimsical as his attitude.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

This is worse because her attorney took an oath — to do no harm and protect his client, not fleece her.

From MarketWatch Mar. 19, 2026

I go back to the couch, and I pull the blue fleece blanket around me, and I turn on Nick at Nite.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Homeowners struggle to get a permit to add a bedroom, and taxpayers can’t get through to the agency that fleeces them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The animals are small and their fleeces have a wide range of colours and shades, including dark brown.

From BBC Sep. 29, 2025

Farmers have vowed to continue burning sheep fleeces in protest over "measly" wool prices.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2024

The two were going over and over among the rolled fleeces.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

There’s a big industry built around the secondhand market, and if you look in the right places, you can find a good deal without getting fleeced.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

A disgraced funeral director's bank accounts and assets have been frozen, as prosecutors seek to recover cash fleeced from his victims.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Related: ‘I have lost nearly everything’: My mother’s trustee changed her $1 million will and my attorney fleeced me.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Not only did this nonleadership fail to halt existing fraud, criminals expanded over the next seven years into fleecing programs for disabilities, adult daycare, autism, substance abuse and housing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2025

He’s not the Albert Robles who was found guilty 19 years ago of fleecing South Gate out of $20 million as treasurer — that’s Big Al Robles.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2025

This revenue share is for all media—not just books—but illustrates the extreme financial incentive prisons have to participate with prison telecom companies in this fleecing of incarcerated people.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2024

“Not suckering me here, are you, Jace? Tell you what, how about fleecing me for one pound?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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