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Each boat considered at risk is disinfected by teams who wear whole face masks and boots.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
By 2018, the craft beer industry’s buzz was starting to wear off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Once you wear the uniform,” he says, “the blue flame never goes out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
I wear multiple hats for my 93-year-old mother-in-law, who has dementia.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“This has washing instructions. If you throw these in the machine, I will think differently of you. But if you don’t wear them, you will hurt my feelings.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Claire wears her cheerleader uniform in both scenes — the identifying outfit that generated the first season’s catchphrase, “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
When someone wears several hats, it can be surprisingly difficult to know which hat applies, and when.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
And on Thursday he faces an election for his own parliamentary seat against a man who goes by Count Binface and wears a trash can on his head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The project was renamed “Prolific,” taking its name from the word Hussle famously had etched on his right temple — the very spot where Rideaux now wears “Victory.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
She’s a short, chubby woman who wears her hair curled.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
That time, the attacker wore black clothes, a Darth Vader-like mask and a German World War II helmet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Over tens of millions of years, the giant cliff system would have gradually migrated inland as erosion wore it down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I went just like everyone. At 7 a.m. I showed up, wore my regalia, sat down and just soaked in the sun for a couple hours,” he said of the experience last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
At the recent gathering, family members wore nametags detailing their generation and family branch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He had a beard and an eye-patch too, And for all I know, he wore one shoe And ate for his lunch a bowl of goo.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
As the season has worn on, it has called off tournaments, slashed payouts and faced claims from unpaid vendors such as Fresh Tape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
It was contrasted with a picture released by the court on Thursday, in which a worn, white-haired Xu stood unsmiling, flanked by two police officers as he faced a panel of judges.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The most daunting challenge was intuiting what Bessette would have worn in the years before she met Kennedy and became one of the most photographed women in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Wool from Welsh mules is more likely to be walked on than worn.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
She was still in the same clothes she’d worn to school, still in those thick tights.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Laura says something as simple as wearing shorts is a huge milestone for someone who previously went to great lengths to hide her appearance, and she is now slowly learning to embrace how she looks.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
In a realistic 1870s monument for a member of the Piaggio family, a dead man’s widow, shown leaving the door of a tomb, is wearing an elaborate lace shawl and mourning through her sculpted eyelashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
As the chaos spread, many were forced out of their homes with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“It’s lowkey a free concert,” says pass holder Juanita Jones, a San Diego resident who was wearing a custom graphic tee with her and Soulja Boy’s faces imprinted on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
I could never remember that I was wearing long skirts now, and Betsie spent many evenings mending the rips I put in them when I moved too fast.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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