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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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This subterranean dormitory is run by Halyna Mysnyk, a 44-year-old subway employee in a red hat and a navy fleece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

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

From Salon May 17, 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 watch him and I wonder if he wants a fleece or a sofa cushion to cover him up.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

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

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

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2023

Outside in the entry way he made his bed—raw oxhide spread on level ground, and heaped up fleeces, left from sheep the Akhaians killed.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

“But we can’t do that if the states that are administering those programs are allowing those programs to be fleeced by fraudsters.”

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 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

There’s Mamdani near Bryant Park, asking halal cart vendors how much they’d sell their $10 chicken-over-rice plates if they weren’t getting fleeced by permit farmers hoarding licenses from the city.

From Salon May 1, 2025

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

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

Counterfeit documents, made by a forger in the 1880s, have been fleecing collectors for 140 years.

From BBC Nov. 13, 2023

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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