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coat

[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

Dad’s in the hall putting his coat on when I get in.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

He coats the eggs with glue secreted from his legs and attaches clusters of egg sacs to his own body while they develop.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

Umpire Allahuddien Paleker officiated in gloves, while England's backroom staff huddled on the dressing room balcony in thick coats.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Me and Calista peeled off our coats and shook all the slushy snow out of our umbrellas and got to work being sad.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

She managed to grab hold of her daughter's foot, but her shoes were coated in engine oil from the overturned vessel and she slipped through her hands.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

"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

Electrolyzers operating with desalinated seawater or acidic solutions currently require expensive titanium components coated with gold or platinum.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

When I am at work making tejas and coated with the red clay and dust under the good warm sun, again I think of Papi.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The deal covers Nanexa’s PharmaShell technology, which is designed to enable controlled and sustained release of active pharmaceutical ingredients through an ultra-thin coating applied to individual drug particles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The factory in Thornton-Cleveleys first start operating in the 1950s, when ICI manufactured coating for non-stick frying pans using PFOA.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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