stripe
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Any type of payment card with a magnetic stripe is potentially at risk, authorities say, but EBT cards are the softest targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
He said Noah was wearing a white Bluey T-shirt, shorts and black Vans trainers with a white stripe.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The intense pull of Seville’s silver drew fortune-seekers of every stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, red stripe and white upper body.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
She wore green Army slacks with a black stripe down the leg, a green Army shirt, and in the cold before sunrise she put on a black military sweater.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Not since a 21-year-old Lance Armstrong in Oslo in 1993 had any man traded in his USA jersey for the world champion’s rainbow stripes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The small feline, about the size of a domestic moggy, went under the radar because it was confused with other wild cats that share similar spots and stripes.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
R2-D2’s streaky blue accent stripes appear to be hand-colored as if by paint marker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
I glance down at the ugly green-and-purple stripes and shrug.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Guests are welcomed by a gorgeous entrance with 10-foot ceilings, where striped wallpaper, crown molding, and large arched doorways immediately set the tone.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
“A full head of hair. And maybe wearing this striped shirt that I got — if it still exists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
At Mitsuwa Marketplace, the sprawling Japanese supermarket outside Chicago, Pastry House Hippo sells a frankfurter inside a beautiful yeasty shell, striped with ketchup.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Manchester United's new home kit, with its flat-knit striped collar and cuffs, is inspired by Red Devils kits from the late seventies.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It’s practice tomorrow, and I peep my outfit in my phone—an orange-and-yellow striped shirt, baggy khaki shorts, white sneakers, a catcher’s mask on top of my head, and a wooden bat resting on my shoulder.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
We bought a bunch of road rental companies — all those orange barricades and cones and striping you see on the roads.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
If the lane striping isn’t perfect, though, the lane-keeping assist sometimes disables itself, so I don’t rely on it completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025
“Crews will use these partial closures to re-position the existing K-rail and place temporary striping to allow for construction activities in the southbound lane,” Caltrans officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2024
With his friend beside him he stepped confidently out the courtyard gate, into the long shadows striping the Street of the Goldsmiths.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
