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[kohm] / koʊm /




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With the blade, clippers, shears, comb, brush, spray bottle and styling creams as his tools, he sets his eye on hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Locked away in their quarantine pod, the isolation proved the perfect opportunity to comb through hours of archival footage, stitching a story from B-roll and memories, both of which Eleanor had plenty of.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

These tools comb job boards for competitors’ salary ranges to pinpoint market rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In a simulation, Nvidia used the Red team agent to comb through its environment and identify an attack path it could execute on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Me and him shared a comb, and I’d had the sense to use it this morning.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Bishop combs his old memories of crime-fighting for clues on how to approach these new events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Many vets do not treat their own pets monthly, the committee heard, instead regularly checking their pets' fur with flea combs and restricting use to when fleas were spotted.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Frequency combs, which earned a Nobel Prize in 2005, can be imagined as an incredibly accurate ruler made not from a solid material, but from light or radio waves.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025

First, it combs through what can be tens of thousands of recorded sales calls with customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

I saw watches and combs and ladies’ lipsticks and eyeglasses.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Emergency services combed through the wreckage at night to find further victims on the key line linking Madrid with the southern city of Seville, hoisting pieces of mangled metal with cranes, AFP reporters saw.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

I was in a suit, I combed my hair, and I lost my mustache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the past, scammers would have manually combed through social-media profiles and other online data to piece together details about potential targets and obtain contact information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, agents from the New York FBI office combed through a trove of documents received from the Met Police, following the search of Bayoumi's properties in Birmingham, the BBC has learned.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

She combed her hair with an ashwood comb carved like a raven’s claw, then tied it back in a horsetail and stuck in an owl feather for hunting luck.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

His manager’s assistants and others on his team are combing through requests, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Maybe the tickly moustache isn't helping his allergies - and combing it won't make much difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pancho’s brother called up the leaders of the self-defense milita, and soon 200 men were combing the hills by flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Potter is less interested combing through the Caesars’ allegedly lurid deeds than probing the workings of the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Brigit's eyelids fluttered and Ella knew she was combing through everything. “...like vials and tools and one of those weird pocket-boxes...”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton


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