carpet
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The videos show a mix of congressional aides, associates of Mr. McConnell, health and support staff, his wife, Elaine Chao, and even men holding carpet samples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
They reunited earlier this year and walked the red carpet together for the BET Awards on June 28.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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 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
The blade lands on the carpet without a sound.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
In recent months, artsy shots of glossy naked nails have been flooding social media and taking over fashion runways and red carpets, which some are viewing as the latest symbol of "quiet luxury".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
If this cave is still open, with the machines and lights, the carpets and running water still here, there will be a terrible temptation to give up and move back to the soft life.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Catherine Earnshaw, raised in the “disorderly, comfortless” gothic abode of Wuthering Heights, is seduced by the refinement of the neighboring Thrushcross Grange, “a splendid place carpeted with crimson.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
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
My wife absolutely loves the full shag carpeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Luckily, she found both at the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach, which her team covered in red carpeting to stay faithful to the Sherman Oaks mall’s original design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The landlord cannot, for example, claim carpeting to be substantially damaged if it has not been replaced in the past 10 years.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 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
Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
