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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat.

From Salon May 17, 2026

Bean TikTok post showing Kelly in the brand’s signature outdoor gear, including a rain jacket, hoodie and fleece.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

His outfit, an Off White hoodie and a fleece bucket hat with a tortoise on the front, is just as uplifting and whimsical as his attitude.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

This is worse because her attorney took an oath — to do no harm and protect his client, not fleece her.

From MarketWatch Mar. 19, 2026

I stroked her fleece and felt her chest a hundred times, to see if she was breathing.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

She said the organisation had also come in handy for providing pants, trainers and shoes, as well as helping her to get the specific fleeces her special needs daughter required.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2026

Every year the programme receives around 35,000 applications from people who want to don the famous red and blue fleeces, to see if they can spot a bargain and make a profit.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2025

You can also buy hoodies, half-snap fleeces, dog leashes and dopp kits featuring the A24 logo.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2023

“Down there near the riverbank,” she said, “where the bushes grow thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Go fetch me some of their shining wool.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

And then there’s the annual plowing of millions in DWP surplus dollars into the City Hall piggy bank, which convinces ratepayers they’re being fleeced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

The Football Supporters' Association has said that fans are being "fleeced" as a result of Fifa's ticketing strategy.

From BBC May 6, 2026

Related: ‘I have lost nearly everything’: My mother’s trustee changed her $1 million will and my attorney fleeced me.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

“These groups have been fleecing taxpayers and Veterans for far too long,” VA Secretary Doug Collins was quoted.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

Not only did this nonleadership fail to halt existing fraud, criminals expanded over the next seven years into fleecing programs for disabilities, adult daycare, autism, substance abuse and housing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2025

This revenue share is for all media—not just books—but illustrates the extreme financial incentive prisons have to participate with prison telecom companies in this fleecing of incarcerated people.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2024

Burt employed bizarre accounting methods in order to conceal his fleecing of the Osage.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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