collar
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To text me saying that she wants some water, Clover must tap her dangling collar.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
The driving force behind that is Padre Pepe, a chatty parish priest in jeans and checked shirt rather than a dog collar.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
When Lloyd Blankfein got his first suit-and-tie job, his boss took him aside to share some veteran advice: He should invest in a set of collar stays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Imagine Beto O’Rourke with a clerical collar and capacity to mint money.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
I stepped forward, but Red grabbed my shirt collar and hauled me back.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
AFP previously investigated a multilingual trend of videos stealing seniors’ identities to bait users into sympathetic purchases of slippers and dog collars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Both Hole’s Courtney Love and Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland claimed to be the first to perform in vintage, threadbare dresses with Peter Pan collars and puff sleeves, accessorized with knee socks and Mary Janes.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
The future Goldman Sachs CEO’s shirt collars were popping out—a no-no in his buttoned-up white-shoe law office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Put spread collars can also protect gains in markets that have rallied the most over the past three months, the bank added.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
The gentlemen standing, studies in black and white with wing collars and kid gloves.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Big stock owners are hedging with collared positions—selling upside calls to buy downside puts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
She wore a long skirt from Aritzia, a collared blue tank, a belt and loafers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
After being tagged and collared, the animal was released into Angeles National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
In addition to the raven data, the team analyzed movement patterns from 20 collared wolves.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
Eyes collared in cups of grime and deeply sunk.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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 on Key Largo, midsize mammals are still abundant enough to study—hence the collaring.
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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