fleece
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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
But last month, he found himself permanently banned because of "fraudulent activity, such as selling counterfeit items" after listing a used North Face fleece.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Rolling her eyes at herself, she threw on her Silly Boys, Coding Is for Girls T-shirt and plain gray fleece pants.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
The pedigree breeder said the "measly" payment they would receive from British Wool for the fleeces from their 260 sheep meant "it's not viable for us to send it".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
Old Eurykleia saw him first, for that day she was covering handsome chairs nearby with clean fleeces.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
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
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
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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You might say that fleecing California’s cradle-to-grave state is like taking candy from a baby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
More than 40 musicians have signed a letter urging the UK prime minister to "stop touts from fleecing fans" and cap the price that can be charged when tickets are resold.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
Ippei Mizuhara’s fleecing of Shohei Ohtani was straightforward for the most part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 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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