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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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She once sported almost the exact same slate-blue jacket as Idris Elba.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

One of those who had come to hear him speak was David, a smartly dressed man in a freshly-pressed shirt and navy jacket, who said he had met Eisenkot before.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Ilija Srdanović appears an unlikely opponent for Serbia's long-serving leader, Aleksandar Vučić, arriving for an interview by motorbike sporting a fluorescent yellow jacket emblazoned with pro-student slogans.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Those foundations can begin with something as simple as learning to put on a jacket, a common milestone for a preschooler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

He’s wearing a red Kangol bucket hat, a thick, twisted gold chain, and a colorful Troop jacket.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

She favours low fuss, low-key work jackets, flannel shirts, jeans and practical footwear.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Saying she wants to give “every bit of energy I have” to Theranos, Holmes shows off her closet, which contains black jackets and turtlenecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Video footage apparently taken by a member of the public and posted to X showed several agents wearing HSI jackets outside Omar's Washington residence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

A Bulgarian vessel was close by, but when they arrived all they saw was an overturned boat and rafts as well as life jackets.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Early in the morning on September 24, 1938, Valentina, Polina, and Marina, wearing leather jackets and fur-lined boots, took off from Moscow into a clear sky.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

"Everyone who was sort of leather jacketed, leaning against the wall, too cool to dance, started dancing," recalls Pierson.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

Shooting a 160-grain jacketed bullet at almost 2,000 feet per second, it was a speed demon at the time.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White

If the sphere is charged and then the jacketing hemispheres fitted on it and removed, the sphere is found to be perfectly discharged.3 Numerous other demonstrations of this fact were given by Faraday.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various


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