carpet
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Excellent, if your tastes trend toward carpet tiles, hospital lighting, and the trapped-animal sensation of entering a room with no exit.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
“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
She also donned red carpet maternity wear at The Odyssey's US premiere in New York on 14 July.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Disney was first, offering her a junket interview for the series Moon Knight, where she got to interview stars on the red carpet.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
And Olive no doubt caught her toe in the carpet as they set off for the first-class dining saloon.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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
Hollywood power couple Tom Holland and Zendaya have been dominating red carpets all summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
They’ve covered the bare floors with white carpets; round white banquet tables overflowing with white lilacs fill the room.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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
Depending on where you are reading this, your doormat may have been carpeted with colourful leaflets for weeks and your TV and social media feeds chocca with political promises.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Trump shared photos of the suspected shooter, shirtless and in handcuffs facedown on a carpeted floor, in what appears to be the Hilton lobby.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Movie theaters with patterned carpeting have been deemed liminal, as have fast-food restaurants, parking garages and malls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Upon entering the abode, guests are greeted with green carpeting that leads to a white staircase.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Called bonus depreciation, the tax break applies to purchases such as new carpeting or appliances for owners of rental properties, or new computer equipment or a vehicle for business owners.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
