- present participle of stock.
stocking
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She also urged retailers to reconsider stocking the glasses given the investigation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
But the analysts said retailers would likely need greater proof that those products could actually sell before stocking the items on their shelves.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Golden Bears assembled what recruiting network 247Sports called the ACC’s second-best transfer portal class this spring, rebuilding its defense with younger, high-ceiling players and stocking its offense with more proven talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
She is wearing a suit, but she’s in her stocking feet.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
Meanwhile, investors may be hoping for some gold and silver in their Christmas stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Curtains that once graced the windows of a royal retreat have been turned into Christmas stockings to be auctioned for charity.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Her legs are encased in striped stockings, her feet in tall black button-up boots.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
