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[koht] / koʊt /






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“An oversized entry gallery with a coat closet provides plenty of room for a home office or library overlooking the elegant sunken living room,” the listing adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

So, why not slather on another coat of bull and hope no one notices?

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Trotter also continued to play with woven leather, a speciality of the Italian house, on a trench coat for men and on tall boots for women.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Because they cannot imagine an autumn in which they don't pause to admire the ginkgo at its finest, swathed in a feathery coat of gold.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

And with his coat on—why would he have his coat on just to stop at my door?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Others copped to bringing back years-old coats, kid-rejected snacks, used beach chairs and $800 Oriental rugs—all with no issue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“My closet is full of winter coats, you know what I mean?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

Even though it was now warm enough that Ophie and her mother didn’t need to wear coats when they traveled to and from the house, Mrs. Caruthers still complained about being cold all the time.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

"This tastes really sweet. It's almost like it's been coated in sugar," said Douyin influencer Liulianzi in a clip liked more than 17,000 times.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

One trend centered on the “chamoy pickle”—a hollowed-out jumbo dill pickle typically filled with spicy chips or sour candy, coated with the Mexican condiment chamoy and wrapped in a Fruit Roll-Up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Hence the cold seal solution, in which enough pressure is applied for the barrier coated paper to be bonded against itself.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

She set her finger on its edge, and lacy frost spirals coated the pot.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

The anchovy sizzled itself into the oil coating those browned alliums.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"That's where we then come in, to give them the protective coating to effectively enable these new materials."

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

When it later strikes a protective coating, that charge can suddenly discharge at the point of impact, potentially damaging the material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

With every step farther into “the pile,” what rescue workers came to call the smoldering mass of debris, a coating of white powder got thicker and deeper—like snow that wasn’t snow, my father recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Ifemelu had finished and Aunty Uju was coating an exfoliating mask on her face when The General called to say he could no longer come.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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