clad
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Television cameras outside the courtroom feast on the sea of women clad in bright pink T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like “She Needed Help” or “Stand in Peace for Lindsay.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Under a blazing sun, clad in black and clutching portraits of their slain leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian pilgrims streamed across the border into Iraq to observe the Arbaeen, the most revered event in Shia Islam.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Stylish in his misery, he is impeccably clad in a black suit and looks like a cross between Marcello Mastroianni in “8 1/2” and John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
I lift an arm to cover my eyes and notice it is clad in silk.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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It was blamed in part on the building’s highly flammable cladding and lack of alarms, sprinklers and a fire escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Building Safety Minister, Samantha Dixon said: "Residents shouldn't be left worrying about living in homes with dangerous, flammable cladding, just because their building isn't tall enough to qualify for funding".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
More buildings will soon be able to access government funding to remove dangerous cladding, the government has announced.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Everything pointed to the possibility that the fuel in the spent pool was no longer underwater, and that the zirconium cladding that encased the fuel rods had ignited.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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