topper
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Researchers also found a pair of broken glasses; an IV needle with a bottle topper; a brass item with writing, perhaps a cigarette case; and a button with Japanese-looking iconography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I briefly consider breakfast-for-dinner — biscuits and eggs are always tempting — but land instead on a skillet chicken pot pie: chicken, frozen vegetables, cream, and biscuits as the topper.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Serious crab keepers install a second story to their tank, called a topper, that functions as a playground.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
A knitted postbox topper featuring the infamous phrase "rats the size of cats" has appeared on a street corner in Birmingham amid the city's ongoing bin strikes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
“Well, gimme your coat, girl,” Santa said eagerly, almost tearing Mrs. Reilly’s old purple woolen topper off.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Cooling mattress toppers and bedding that use water or phase change materials may also help.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
In music, we’ve seen chart toppers from artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Lil Nas X, and Sam Smith and Kim Petras play with occult imagery.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
We also have merch drops, where we’ll give away something, like straw toppers and bumper stickers, with a drink purchase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
I was a sight, in that weather-stained old suit and ragged toppers, even before I got freckled and splashed with prairie-mud.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
