collar
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In the best performances, rare though they may be, this music grabs listeners by the collar and never lets them go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
True to form, Joe Lycett wore a polka-dot shorts suit with a purple feather collar.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Another video angle shows agents holding him by the collar as they walk him down the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In an instant, Aunt Hila’s hand shot forward to his collar.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
During wedding ceremonies, women get wide metal collars clamped around their necks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
These characters, representing mythical beings, are ornamented with fine drapery, ruff collars and jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
She had a vague theory that the heat came from something he used in place of starch in the shirts and collars.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Just a few months ago, the National Park Service caught a young collared male at the western end of the mountain range who had a kinked tail — a sign of inbreeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Wearing a clerical collared shirt, Boateng moves through rows of buses loading passengers before boarding one bound for Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Some members of the Whaleback pack are collared, providing a good starting point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
This is my way of telling you I forgot to wear a collared shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
His clothes, on the bank, folded neatly and stacked, collared shirt on top of jeans on top of leather jacket on top of black boots.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
To do so safely, Blair suggested collaring and keeping cats close on a well-fitted harness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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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