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headband

[hed-band] / ˈhɛdˌbænd /








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To onlookers, it was astonishing seeing a schoolgirl in a headband outwit adults who had been competing at top-flight events since before she was born.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

So in 1992, wearing flares, a bottle green jacket and a yellow headband over her bobbed blonde hair, van Heel appeared on the hit ITV programme.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

I was there with a unicorn headband on, living my best life.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

With his white headband working and his shoe repaired, Sterling helped lead a second-half surge by Harvard-Westlake that resulted in a 71-57 victory, sending the Wolverines into the Southern Section Open Division championship game Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

Bess built them out of two white powder puffs and a plastic headband.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer are recently retired, neatly folding headbands in the sock drawer.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

In a match dedicated to the life of his mentor Graham Thorpe, Root celebrated by pulling on one of Thorpe's trademark white headbands, and looked to the sky.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

And style influencers have been democratically tying bows on everything from over-ear headphones to bag straps to headbands.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2024

Most of the enemy soldiers now wore white bands around their heads, the same kind of headbands worn by Japanese warriors for hundreds of years.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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