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collar

[kol-er] / ˈkɒl ər /




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“Head down, blue collar hoops,” said Golden State’s Kiah Stokes, who had 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks in Monday’s Valkyries win.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Wearing a royal blue jumper with a red collar, the musician then urged fans to keep an eye out for and support each other.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Afterward, she ensured Gnocchi always left the house with a collar in addition to the harness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“I will have it made into a collar at once!”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Scientists will use GPS collars to track mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats, deer and gray fox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Hikers and urban walkers are wearing them on socks and jacket collars; parents are tacking them onto kids’ hats and backpacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Balanced” trainers use motivators and a spectrum of corrective tools, including prong collars, which apply pressure to the dog’s neck when it pulls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

He’s open to clients using equipment such as prong collars for larger, more aggressive dogs where appropriate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The plane returned at so low a level she could see the men in the cockpit, their coat collars pulled up around their necks, their crash helmets and goggles gleaming.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

This is my way of telling you I forgot to wear a collared shirt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Big stock owners are hedging with collared positions—selling upside calls to buy downside puts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

At the juncture between turn and homestretch, he collared the last of the front-runners, Half Time, who was laboring along the rail.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Tagging and collaring is an underfunded process, said Domingo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024

Their small, fuzzy bodies made collaring them difficult, too.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2024

Revving the engines, they head out to check the line of 37 live traps they’ve been running since February in hopes of capturing and collaring Canada lynx.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

But even on Key Largo, collaring prey will only ever be one of a suite of tactics experts use to try to keep pythons at bay.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2023

The muck seemed to climb me, rising up my arms, my chest, collaring my throat like a noose.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs


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