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
What will today’s kids think of He-Man, the muscle-bound ’80s relic with the most iconic bob after Anna Wintour?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
Pilot Jakob Mandlbauer was stretchered off after the bob hurtled down the track for a good 30 seconds on its side.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
She saw Tiller’s jacket and head bob up again and go down.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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To market herself, Kusama adopted an outlandish persona, donning brightly colored bobbed wigs, and red leotards or dot-covered gowns for public appearances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
Lights bobbed on the path behind them as their pursuers sped up.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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Scott said, such as head bobbing, swaying and pacing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Office workers being tossed around their workplaces; cars bobbing in the surf like ice cubes in a punchbowl; skyscrapers waving like reeds in the wind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
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
Four waterproof wooden boxes were loaded onto the bobbing boat.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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