fleece
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From Fair Isle knitting to spinning, fleece preparation, weaving, lace knitting to wool skirting, there is a huge range for visitors to discover.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Reed Krakoff’s bags, in fleece and denim, could help Gap seize a bigger piece of the roughly $15 billion accessories category.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
I have a fancier fleece blanket that should work nicely for Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s cape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
And all night long, wrapped in the finest fleece, he took in thought the course Athena gave him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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The fleeces from Williams's farm are taken to a local wool depot in Newtown, where manager Barry Bellis sorts through them by hand.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Homeowners struggle to get a permit to add a bedroom, and taxpayers can’t get through to the agency that fleeces them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
A federal judge shows how this hospital ‘discount’ fleeces drug makers and patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"Fashion designers need to come and look to see what fleeces farmers have to offer," Ms Hames said.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
Gawaine, Agravaine and Gaheris were sitting on the fleeces, eating apples.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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So in March, he emailed the inmate he pinpointed as the one who fleeced Monk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
There’s a big industry built around the secondhand market, and if you look in the right places, you can find a good deal without getting fleeced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
Williamson, who allegedly fleeced Becerra’s political kitty when she owned a government relations firm before joining Newsom’s staff, pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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It dug into the fraud that purportedly precedes the fleecing of U.S. antipoverty programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
“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
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
“Not suckering me here, are you, Jace? Tell you what, how about fleecing me for one pound?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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