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[wair] / wɛər /








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"She's going to wear that for the rest of her life," said urban policy analyst Peter Dreier of California's Occidental College.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Her work focuses on the trends shaping what we wear and the people driving the fashion and luxury industries, as well as off-the-news style analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Electric trucks weigh thousands of pounds more than traditional trucks, so their tires wear out faster and need replacing more often.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

To uncover those clues, the team combined several scientific techniques, including CT scans, 3D reconstruction, microscopic examination of tooth wear, isotope geochemistry, and pollen analysis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

I swept the floor in our house so many times it was a wonder I didn’t wear out the floorboards.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

My stepmother was sitting right there in her favorite green dress, which she wears to almost every family occasion.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

And she wears it for the rest of the series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Flavio Bolsonaro wears a black shirt and shoulders a backpack as he disembarks the plane alongside his wife and two daughters, AFP observes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Jair Hernandez wears his best Azteca outfit while attending the official opening of the Dia De Los Muertos altars in Gloria Molina Grand Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Like the way she always wears a little gold Allah charm from Pakistan around her neck and the easy way she switches between English and Urdu when talking to her mom and mine.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Hobbits “seldom wore shoes, since their feet had tough leathery soles and were clad in a thick curling hair.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

"He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and, in my case, love," Sir Ian, Sir Patrick's X-Men co-star, said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

To investigate the connection, researchers analyzed data from 87,577 adults who wore wrist devices equipped with accelerometers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

“MCR’s performers nevertheless again wore the DCC Uniform” on Friday night during the band’s second Hollywood Bowl performance, the filing states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ma always wore her own hair in a low bun, and I’d half expected the hairdo to be matronly like hers.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"Ashley's American flag high heels, denim dress and bright red blouse worn with a bandana around her neck are classic Americana," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Military fatigues are worn like a badge of honor in Jerusalem’s historic center, where young recruits sling automatic weapons over their shoulders.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

But this room’s premier attraction, from the same film, is the cape worn by Bela Lugosi as the movie’s title character and then kept by the actor for the rest of his life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The birds that had worn weights throughout development showed a remarkably different response.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

We’d have worn our winter suits under our overalls, with eats in our pockets.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Martha Stewart apologized after posting a photo of herself on Instagram wearing torn clothes, with a dirty face and holding up the message, “I Am Hungry Help Me!!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

She made headlines for wearing traditional boots of the Yup'ik people while being sworn in as a congresswoman in 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"The information we have is that Halloween is not helping matters, because we're going to have people wearing masks."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Prime cameras showed him climbing into an ambulance under his own power and still wearing his pads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Now, he’s wearing a gray Union T-shirt, not that old navy jersey, and I would never in a million years attempt to hold his hand.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison


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