nose
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When I picture this movie, I think of Jack and that nose right away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Nasa is flying the X-59 in conjunction with community surveys to assess what people think when a supersonic boom is bent by the planes stretched nose and hushed up.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Most on the nose was 2013’s Elysium, in which healthcare is sporadic on a post-collapse Earth.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The outermost end is called the distal tip, or the "nose" of the fiber.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
This man seemed to concentrate somewhere between my nose and my chin.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
If there were any time to turn our noses up in defiance and refuse to engage with anything less than quality, it’s now.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The party was a little livelier than your typical book launch: Heiser says it “featured a reading backed by an excellent jazz trio, ceramic noses, a scent-maker, mimes and speed therapy, among many other things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
In the seaside resort of Palma de Majorca in the Balearic Islands, tourists, many in swimsuits, some standing in the water, watched the eclipse closely, protective glasses perched on noses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
I look to Autumn and Ama, both of whom have already plugged their noses with hair clips.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
All I know is that when Pebble Beach’s traffic control staff forced me to execute a tricky U-turn on a narrow road—at night, in front of witnesses—the Multistrada nosed around beautifully.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The champions nosed ahead through a Lewandowski penalty on 10 minutes after Marcos Alonso handled Fermin Lopez's shot, but Celta equalised a minute later.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
Norris had previously nosed slightly ahead on the straight approaching the corner.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
In the current year alone, record sales have nosed ahead of compact discs.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
She nosed it to the crack in the drawer.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
The entire Crace clan is resisting Susan’s nosing about, imperiling the brand and jeopardizing the Netflix deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It has returned 15.8% a year over the past decade, nosing out the benchmark index, which has returned 15.6%, through May 8.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
“Waiting on the End of the World” is the standout of the three choices, nosing ahead because there’s a great guitar line that winds through and both grounds and elevates the song.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025
A night vision camera shows a bear nosing around her camp site.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
Badger was rather good at nosing people like that out.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
