nylons

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He sold Amway nylons to FBI secretaries while other agents sneered.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

In clothing, auxetic nylons, fibers and other synthetic materials could prove more comfortable than traditional materials.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

“Part of survival, part of how we thrive and make politics, is that possibility of self-fashioning, of beauty, of pleasure, of nylons or the click of your heels,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

These plastics and nylons also can't be reused or recycled and aren't biodegradable, meaning they'll likely stick around in a landfill somewhere for an infinite amount of time, too.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021

In 1939, when DuPont introduced nylons, countless American women felt as if a miracle had been performed in their honor.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt