carpet
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After procuring my press ticket, I waited for the yellow carpet, where I was asked multiple times if I was “part of the influencers group.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
The model debuted her baby bump in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where the couple posed together while walking a red carpet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and Lisa were among some of the celebrities to walk a blue version of the traditional red carpet, ahead of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The interiors include an open-concept living area with a fireplace, along with a combination of carpet and wood-toned flooring.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
She sat up straight in her chair and put both socked feet flat on the carpet.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Her work appears mostly on red carpets, onstage and in museum collections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Her influence is why she and her husband are invited to red carpets and field sponsorship offers.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The government has also introduced "geographical indication" tags that help distinguish genuine Kashmiri carpets from cheap imitations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She panics on red carpets and says interviews make her nervous, although she certainly doesn’t seem it today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Let’s do the same thing with the rational numbers—but this time our carpets are sets of numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Swaths of the region are carpeted in grasses that each year grow and then die, creating what Acuña described as a patchwork of layers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
That the world is made of green fields carpeted with sweet grass, where nothing bad ever happens.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Remember when America Online CDs carpeted America and “You’ve got mail” felt like the future?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Huge areas of seabed around the Cook Islands are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, lumpy rocks studded with rare earths and critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
But she had always been separated from them by hallways that got longer and more thickly carpeted as they moved from house to house.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Additional updates throughout the home include refinished hardwood floors, fresh interior paint, new carpeting, and a remodeled guest bathroom,” the description notes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Working together, the couple removed the shag carpeting and wood paneling from the first floor and the stairway, installing drywall in their place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
It has refurbished fitting rooms with soft lighting, nicer carpeting and more chairs to make them more appealing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
As a child in the late 1970s and early ’80s, I fondly recall grand movie houses with chandeliers, carpeting and upholstered seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
I’d grown up around the smell of new carpeting, of polyester shirts hot from the dryer.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
