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[hat] / hæt /


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Bush’s brand and accent were Texan, with the hat to match, but his roots are in the WASPy New England.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

In a clip on his personal TikTok, Burnham, thanks to clever editing, appears to toss up a mortarboard hat and catch a builder's helmet, as he promotes technical education.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Its red-white-and-blue website shows the Statue of Liberty and a person wearing a cowboy hat striding with a partner through amber waves of grain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Just inside the door, there was a flimsy mannequin with the face of a much younger, slimmer Trump, wearing a red “Trump 2028” hat, a dark suit, and a signature red tie.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

A thin man entered and pulled off his hat.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Easy to spot, in their yellow bucket hats and yellow T-shirts., they'll be stationed throughout the city centre to help with things like directions and advice.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

The RAV4 is to modern suburbia what porkpie hats were to ’50s dads.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Lamb is virtually guaranteed a victory in November, which means that Congress will indeed have more “cowboy hats and belt buckles.”

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

Jumping from mall to mall, largely in the western United States, it expanded, and its uniforms of bright striped shirts and hats became a symbol of mall life of the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

He moves among our group quietly, stopping every now and then to inspect hats, mittens, sweaters.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

“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

His shop is offering two versions of Pope Francis molded in mozzarella, one hatted and one without.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2015

He kissed her bluegrayblue eyes, her Entomologist’s nose, her hatted redbrown hair.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Did your husband fail, when he gave up 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

He said a friend of his there, who carried on the hatting business, wanted a boy.

From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur




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