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nose

[nohz] / noʊz /




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As those in the cabin rushed the cockpit, one pulled on the yoke to lift the nose and stop the plane’s rapid descent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The pilot, his head wrapped in bandages, and with a breathing tube in his nose, said the path to recovery was long.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lunch-hour nose jobs and low-intervention brow and arm lifts trade dramatic results for minimal anesthesia and quicker recoveries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

And what about the prosthetic nose he wears?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I pull my shirt up over my nose and let my eyes take in the space from the safety of the hallway.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

For decades, doctors have been surgically lifting the skin and often breaking nasal bones in order to create more symmetrical noses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

People become infected by breathing in the contaminated air or touching the infected surface and then touching their eyes, noses or mouths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ella started to count to ten, but before she got to five, she heard the pitter-patter of tiny feet and spotted the big black noses of several rotties peeking their heads out from behind columns.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

The versatile guitar nosed its way into every type of musical ensemble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

Crossing the bay, the boat nosed through the broken surface ice.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

Tracking data show the plane, owned by 73-year-old pilot Ali Safai, climbed to 75 feet above the runway, veered right and then nosed into a sudden, terrifyingly steep dive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024

It is the size of a truck engine, nosed in knobs, shiny with chrome, gleaming with modern-day hope.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Sonny, the star Portuguese water dog, went nosing around for a girlfriend when he was supposed to be attending to press obligations in the Long Island living room of his professional dog-show handler, Kimberly Calvacca.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

Bears, who can weigh up to half a ton and outrun humans, have been breaking into homes looking for food, nosing around schools and rampaging through supermarkets.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

It’s funny, then, that the people nosing their way past the lines Allen draws and into her personal life are the same ones hoping for Harbour and Allen to be symbols of morality.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

Then there are four slightly older puppies, pit bull mixes probably, whose eyes are still tightly shut, futilely nosing around the crate for their mother who never made it to the shelter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

A few more people willing to brave Grandma came and went, but finally we were down to the reporter, who’d settled into the best chair, still nosing for news.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck




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