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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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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

The brand has tapped former Coach designer Reed Krakoff to create a new line of handbags using its signature fleece and denim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

I drop the fleece blanket in the living room.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

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

Bellis said he could spot 68 different grades of wool as he had worked through the fleeces, with the best destined for formal wear while others ended up as slug pellets.

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

Gawaine, Agravaine and Gaheris were sitting on the fleeces, eating apples.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

When I heard about the death of Jim Bakker, the scandalous televangelist who fleeced his flock in the 1980s, I recalled going “undercover” as a college newspaper reporter to visit Bakker’s theme park, Heritage USA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

So in March, he emailed the inmate he pinpointed as the one who fleeced Monk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

As an example of money wasted by LAHSA’s lack of financial controls, Turner cited the recent federal indictment alleging a homeless services provider fleeced the system of $23 million in fraudulent billings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

A disgraced funeral director's bank accounts and assets have been frozen, as prosecutors seek to recover cash fleeced from his victims.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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

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

“I started realizing that these DSOs are just fleecing the doctors, like totally taking advantage of them,” said Williams, who amplifies his objections by co-hosting the podcast Just Say No to the DSO.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 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

He’s not the Albert Robles who was found guilty 19 years ago of fleecing South Gate out of $20 million as treasurer — that’s Big Al Robles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

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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