fleece
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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