hank
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"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2021
Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2017
He sweeps a hank of dark hair out of his eyes.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2016
I notice that no one ever brought the Candor girl I warned to the elevator hank, which means she must have gotten away.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
They are heavy with meat: hanks of shredded barbacoa, dark and caramelly cecina, cabeza more a stage of melt than flesh.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016
"This is just who I am!" she says, those wide eyes getting even wider, hanks of blond hair bobbing atop her head like leaves on a palm tree.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011
She hated being inside the house with the loom and the spinning wheel and the endless hanks of yam.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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