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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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Speaking over Zoom from New York, dressed in his typical wardrobe of black shirt and black sport jacket, Mungiu is wryly amused when I ask if that Dracula dig was inspired by personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

She was last seen wearing a black jacket, grey jumper, black leggings and black shoes.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Jensen Huang started Nvidia wearing garden-variety polo shirts but is now probably legally required to buy every single black leather jacket he comes across for the rest of his life.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

The cut of the jacket was clearly influenced by the Japanese kimono.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

It is also trying to move beyond jeans by branching into other pieces from the period, such as slip dresses and leather jackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Zips were used to modulate the length of skirts, they ran across leather jackets and down a flared blue pair of trousers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gemma and her daughter Casey travelled from Edinburgh wearing handmade custom jackets.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Wrapped in thick jackets, woollen caps and gloves, tourists and visitors gather to see the Milky Way and look through telescopes at planets, the Moon and distant stars.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

My brothers put on jackets and disappear into the garage with Robin trailing behind them.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

Newly jacketed Hall of Famer Joe Thomas was added to the Browns’ Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

The narrow two-story bar, jacketed in reclaimed fence boards and local art, became a hangout for the city’s artists, musicians and writers, as well as waiters, bartenders and baristas.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020

The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017

Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter




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