carpet
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“They can kind of go out and carpet bomb and know that they might not be as efficient, but they’re gonna hit the mark. We don’t have that luxury.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It seems like every new project, every red carpet premiere brings “shocking” stories of his “new look.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Inside there was a red carpet littered with fake petals ready for a proposal.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Everyone paused to watch the red carpet arrival of the king himself: George R. R. Martin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
He noticed a bit of loose carpet beneath a seat in the balcony of the Symphony Theater.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
And on red carpets and film festivals, you can find movie and industry leaders feeding their four favorite films into a microphone emblazoned with Letterboxd’s orange, green and blue dot logo.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Project 33 has completely overhauled each room in the property, adding new furniture, carpets, and other changes aimed at making life easier for Sarah and her children.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
What is the total size of the carpets?
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
On a recent spring day, the road that runs alongside the Guadalupe River leading up to Mystic was carpeted with purple wildflowers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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
Bleak heights are carpeted in radiant colors; every crack and crevice of a frowning crag blossoms.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Its bright orange shade looked almost neon against the phantasmagoric roses bursting from the carpeting and wallpaper—every inch of this underworld custom-calibrated for a blindingly colorful ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
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
In her mermaid costume, Zora lay on the wet strip of outdoor carpeting, waiting to go on after me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
