bob
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When asked directly if this series was his final bow, he laughed: "I think so, unless someone offers me a few bob to go back and do something else."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Crude oil moved from Los Angeles, where pumpjacks bob around the city, to a refinery near San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As if to distinguish herself further from the sea of Fox News look- and think-alikes, she cut her long blond waves into a modest bob.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
I hardly had time to marvel at it before the barber began to shape the bob, his scissors going snip, snip, snip.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Off a Mediterranean beach, countless shoes bobbed in the blue waters, abandoned by migrants who had swum to this slice of Spanish territory along the Strait of Gibraltar, just off the coast of Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
So in 1992, wearing flares, a bottle green jacket and a yellow headband over her bobbed blonde hair, van Heel appeared on the hit ITV programme.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Pink poodles with long black eyelashes danced in a can-can line, a quartet of googly-eyed cacti bobbed along to the music and a trio of small white dogs galloped on the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Muhar walked beside a pond at the Tejon Spreading Works, where ducks bobbed in the shallow water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Dottie turned back to the TV and bobbed her head ever so slightly as the bouncy characters launched into another song.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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The TV cameras didn’t help matters, at one point finding a lone Chargers fan amid an ocean of Raiders fans, a blue dot bobbing in a silver-and-black sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Now we are four confused people bobbing up and down in this cauldron of unbearable repetition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
An AI-generated video shows a crowd of young - mostly black - men, wearing balaclavas and padded jackets, slipping down a water slide into a dirty swimming pool with litter bobbing on the surface.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
In September 2023, she held a news conference dressed as Monroe — bright red lipstick, bobbing blond hair — urging the City Council to declare it a landmark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
As I stood there with my arms out, my head bobbing, and my mouth babbling, “I ... I ... I ...” Claire turned away.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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