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
I have a fancier fleece blanket that should work nicely for Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s cape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"This type of fleece, which contains kemp," Bellis explains, "that will tend to go into a carpet blend because of the colour."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“I think something like Infinity Vision is a joke to fleece moviegoers into thinking they’re getting a premium experience when they’re really not,” Storch said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Mama sits in her checkered fleece robe, tense on the edge of her bed.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
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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
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
You can also buy hoodies, half-snap fleeces, dog leashes and dopp kits featuring the A24 logo.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
The two were going over and over among the rolled fleeces.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
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
He called for politicians globally to act to curtail addictive forms of gambling and prevent consumers being "fleeced" during the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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
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
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
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
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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