clothe
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This view also drives many advocates of universal basic income—including those believing that the AI-fueled labor market of the future won’t produce jobs that pay wages sufficient to feed, clothe and shelter families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Christ emphasized the imperative: Feed and clothe the least of these brothers and sisters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
"In the cost of living crisis, people have struggled to feed and clothe their children," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
But he said it was entirely consistent with Francis’ call for artists to engage with the poor and the Gospel mandate to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and visit the incarcerated.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
He has enough jerseys pinned up on his wall to fully clothe every CFer on this floor for a poor-playing, no-cardiovascular-strength B-team.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
"We fled with nothing. Just the clothes on our backs. We're victims; we're going through a disaster," said Mbay resident Siti Saudah Daso, a 31-year-old mother of three.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“What did I get myself into?” he asked, finding kitchen equipment, furniture, clothes, bottles, a family picture, and wooden planks with nails pointing upward coating the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“If they sold children’s clothes they would be 100% off,” one commenter noted.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
By night’s end, campfire settles into my clothes.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Paris had had all the markers of sophistication; even in wartime the city was like a beautiful woman merely wearing drab clothes.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
So it may surprise some that Talbot’s favorite scene from “Love Story” involves both Kelly and Pidgeon fully clothed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
An officer asked: "Were they both fully clothed when you walked in?"
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
“We love to do what we do on farms — keeping people fed, clothed and moving. But we have to be able to make ends meet so we can keep operating.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
I wonder if any of those people clothed in their masks and costumes, hustling about the city, are the Edna who wrote to me.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
The archaeologists built sterile, temporary structures with temperature and humidity controls, and lowered experts clad in head-to-toe medical gowns into the pits atop bedlike platforms so as to minimize contact with the artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
Next to her was a colleague, Santiago Salazar, 22, clad in his black Mexican World Cup team jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Luxe flooring includes slabs of Italian marble and oak, while the new kitchen serves up top-of-the-line appliances and marble counters, and the bathrooms are clad in marble.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
The door finished opening and Nehemia, clad in a gold-worked wonder, stood before her.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
If there is a dispute over how these payments are provided, parents can turn to the CMS to help ensure a child's living costs, including bills, food and clothing, are paid.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Beth Goldstein, a footwear- and accessories-industry adviser at Circana, said that flats go well with other clothing and are more adaptable than sandals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
It provides school uniforms, new shoes and general clothing items.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"The crisis of money nowadays, the inflation has gone up so dramatically, and parents are struggling to do the basic necessities, let alone get children three pairs of logoed clothing for school," she explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
As lady’s maid to the president’s wife, her tasks included caring for the expensive silk and woolen clothing and the linens worn closest to the body, as well as delicate lace and handkerchiefs.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
