noose
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By handing Banks a length of rope instead, and standing by as she prettily ties it into a noose, they invite the audience to conclude that the many sins of “Top Model” weren’t merely systemic.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
The reader feels the noose tighten and shares Ms. Chang’s distress as it becomes evident after 2018 that she can no longer visit her home country—or her mother’s deathbed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
But those who claimed sanctuary and took an oath were safe from the noose, for the time being.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
However, this venture turned out all right, because I did not have to noose that bird.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Lunday said the reports of labeling swastikas and nooses as divisive were “categorically false.”
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
In it, singer Yawar Abdal imagines a Kashmir where people, blindfolded and with nooses around their necks, are liberated amid chants of “All shall be free.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
Critics allege the industry has serious safety problems, with dangers posed by nooses, hair dryers and poor handling by groomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
The law, filed as HB0418, would institute a statewide order disallowing any symbols of hate including, but not limited to: swastikas, Confederate flags and nooses - though they can be displayed in classroom settings.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
Quiros, Fernandez de, 246 Ra, the sun-god, caught by Maui in nooses, 226 Radiguet, M., 338, 341, 357 n.1,
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
You would see them trundle up and down Spinner's Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling towards the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2014
You would see them trundle up and down Spinner’s Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling toward the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
I willed them to move, but my conscience noosed around my ankles and pulled down hard.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
In imagination they could see Toby tossing his noosed rope wildly out over the rushing waters, and only to make many a miss.
From Afloat on the Flood by Leslie, Lawrence J.
Mitchum is snagging coconuts and noosing turtles; Deborah is roasting breadfruit and thatching a sail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also he had a horrid habit of noosing moccasins for sport; and it would have been easy for him to introduce one to me while I slept.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
Young Marc-Antonio Grilli, the cleverest lad in the parish at noosing any wild animal, is our patron of the feast.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Before the trail was quite completed, it yielded one of the most exciting hunts of our trip—the noosing of a giant bushmaster—the most deadly serpent of the tropics.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
Carefully climbing on, I set to work, and succeeded in noosing four of each species.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
