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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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Dressed in a ball cap, jeans and a Carhartt jacket, he quipped to one attendee that he was going as “the real Dan” for Halloween.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Augusta has given me some of the greatest moments of my life, and I'd love nothing more than to chase another green jacket at such a special place."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

"Without the weighted jacket the record is something like 1,010 so it is night and day without it."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

My eyes are fixed on one of the men; he’s wearing a dark red jacket.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Here’s how Harper would spend his perfect Sunday in L.A., from a morning hike at Griffith Park to shopping for more French tour jackets at a vintage store in Silver Lake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Under trees, volunteers in yellow reflector jackets stood their ground helping those overcome by the fumes.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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 couple of days later, the Yamaha people returned with another machine and a fresh set of life jackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Trees danced and swayed, dust and leaves rose up around us in boisterous swirls, and our jackets and outerwear took on sudden lives of their own, leaping and flapping about us.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

"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

Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021

On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter

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

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


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