sock

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Much like the recurring services described above, common items like reachers, sock helpers and hearing aids might seem relatively inexpensive purchased separately.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Even now, she records many of her vocals at home, with a sock stretched over the microphone to prevent popping and sibilance.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

In New York City, authorities and residents were bracing for a direct hit, the first blizzard to sock the city since 2016.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

I tossed the sock onto the fold-and-put-away pile and fished out another, this one blue and covered in cat hair.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas