stocking
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You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
If you’re like me and still love stocking up on paper coupons, use them!
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
One of the most common rites of passage for young Americans is spending the long summer hours working as a camp counselor, lifeguarding at the local pool, stocking shelves or serving up dinners to regulars.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Vicky Fraser is a bibliographic services manager with LibrariesWest, an organisation in charge of stocking and running public libraries in Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
“Isn’t there even one stocking with nothing but a switch in it? My, my, have you all been such good children?”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Doreen couldn’t wait for the end of rationing, especially for the day when nylon stockings would be available in England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
He is also thinking about dropping a lump of coal in the stockings of defense investors.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
Mr. Popper pulled obediently at the clothesline, while Captain Cook took a parting peck at Mrs. Callahan’s striped stockings.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
