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[hat] / hæt /


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Unusually for Vance on the campaign trail, he then went down to greet the crowd in person -- shaking hands, patting arms and meeting the lady with the black pro-Vance hat.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Every time the comic steps behind the camera as a director, he tries on a slightly different hat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

When the league announced it was planning to expand its top tier from six to eight teams for the 2026/27 season, the Murrayfield-based club threw its hat in the ring and got accepted.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Previously, a customer buying a belt buckle was nudged toward a matching belt or hat, items that closely related to the original purchase, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

She smiled at me from under the broad brim of her hat.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

She has also introduced some changes, like taking away hats from the designs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Walters gave him a box filled with handmade items, including piles of mittens, hats, and other items he’d crocheted for children; Collins dropped the box off with a church deacon.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

For just one week it gave away free baseball hats with the word "thinking" embroidered on the front.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

He loved hats, fedoras at first but then black fisherman beanies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Caterpillar tried on a bunch of different hats.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

“My absolute favorite is Ca Com, the banh mi shop from the Anchovy team. They break down whole pigs in their hatted kitchen next door to make the jungle sausage in my favorite order.”

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

I wish we had a better shot of the gloriously hatted cast of “The Gilded Age,” but one must play the hand one is dealt.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

Otherwise he doesn't remember much, "except that she was small, pleated skirt, hatted, didn't say much".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2022

Edgar Allan Poe writes children's books: "Still that hatted cat comes calling, Nameless Things with him enthralling Children who, their caution falling, Heed their parents nevermore."

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

We watch women leave in Sunday clothes, hatted and lipsticked and white gloved.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts--what Marine pilots call "flat hatting."

From Time Magazine Archive

Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

Officials also point out that another EA-6B squadron in Italy last year apparently videotaped some of its own flat hatting.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was staying there; I went there upon the occasion of my leaving my house, No. 39, Little Queen-street, Holborn, where I had carried on the hatting business.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by William Brodie Gurney

By the 5th of George II. ch. 23d the colonists were prohibited from exporting hats and hatters were limited to a specific number of apprentices—"that hatting may be better encouraged in Great Britain."

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson




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