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
“Enjoying this headline? You’re a rarity: Reading for pleasure is declining ...” was the topper to a story by my colleague Hailey Branson-Potts in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
Serious crab keepers install a second story to their tank, called a topper, that functions as a playground.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
From this the vast space below showed first a moving surface of hats, with few silk toppers among them, but a multitude of panamas and other straws.
From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells