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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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Human hands provide a simple example: Your left and right hands are mirror images, but a left hand cannot fit properly into a right-handed glove.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The lottery group said players should check places like clothing pockets, handbags, backpacks, wallets and vehicle glove compartments to try to find the ticket.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

But it already had been snuffed out by the time the final out landed in Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio’s glove.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Paxton’s own conduct fits that structure like a glove.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

She puts down her trombone with a thump and easily catches the extra glove Jax throws her way.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

The man needed gloves, he told her, and she recommended a pair.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

“We pay for your travel. We pay your fitness coach. We pay your nutritional coach. We buy you the race shoes, suit and gloves and helmets,” Wolff says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

A caregiver wore a protective gown and gloves as she bottle-fed a baby -- one of hundreds of children orphaned by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Kashim Chowdhury wears dark sunglasses, a hat, hoody and gloves as he arrives at court.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

She drew on her long white gloves, fitted each finger, and reached for her evening bag.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Roebuck immediately recognized the long gun in the man’s gloved hands.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

A gloved hand comes out of the picture to grab them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Rew flapped at the ball gloved down the leg side off Archer, much to the displeasure of the bowler.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Brushes her gloved hands together, raining flecks of dirt all over the grass.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Joe Root is reprieved by Cameron Green's no-ball after gloving behind on 1 on day two of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

Tatar gave the Devils breathing room about a minute later, gloving down the rebound of Mercer’s shot and beating Skinner.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

In public, we now cover and constrain ourselves as never before, masking our faces, gloving our hands.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020

He wasn’t far from gloving a ball that snuck through the gate, either - an enduring issue for England’s No3.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2020

Mr. Simlins watched the shawling and gloving with attention.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner


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