bob
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"So there's a lot that's not great about an Oscar. And you don't get any money. They could give you a few bob with it, at least," she joked.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
Tall and willowy, she wore glasses and the same short brown bob she had as a teenager.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“I’m not going to bob and weave about context, the joke was dumb, the fandom is not. I owe them an explanation and a genuine reflection of my actual feelings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The encyclopedia entry had a photograph of Pauline Hawthorne herself, a slender woman with large dark eyes and silvery hair in a no-nonsense bob.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
In it, a woman inside of a hoarder’s garage bobbed a feather toy in front of Likho, who jumped up to catch it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
And by the 1920s, women with bobbed hair came to represent female independence and rebellion.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
On a recent morning, two surfers bobbed up and down on their boards directly in front of the new Club Med.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
With her brown bobbed haircut and round sunglasses, Pelicot has become an international feminist symbol, inspiring a change to French rape laws and a public reckoning with the problem of drugging women.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But then she slid down Tansy’s skirts and bobbed back to the recitation bench.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Erling Haaland's bobbing blonde hair is usually one of the easiest things to spot on a football pitch.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Scott said, such as head bobbing, swaying and pacing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Wearing black Swig shirts, the crew swiftly mixed drinks with bobbing limes and swirling cream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Many benchmark indexes are still bobbing around record highs, and that has many investors concerned about high stock valuations.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Or the Nazi saboteurs in a rubber boat filled with explosives bobbing in the water not twenty feet away from him.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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