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fleece

[flees] / flis /


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“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

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

Instead, gazing back at me was a 44-year-old mom in an ill-fitting fleece, the style just as unflattering as it was all those years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

I wish it were the blue of Devon’s room and I were in my hidey-hole with my purple fleece looking up at the carving of my name.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

"We have coats, fleeces, t-shirts, even shorts and trousers."

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

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

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2023

Dressed in blue fleeces with logos, they steadily climb the concrete staircases of each block on the estate.

From BBC May 9, 2023

The two were going over and over among the rolled fleeces.

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

In the media, Blake’s lawyers skillfully demonized Bakley as a “star stalker” and a conscienceless scam artist who had fleeced men all over the country and made countless enemies, many of them possible killers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 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

"Disabled customers deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and not fleeced as soon as they arrive," he said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 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

It dug into the fraud that purportedly precedes the fleecing of U.S. antipoverty programs.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

“These groups have been fleecing taxpayers and Veterans for far too long,” VA Secretary Doug Collins was quoted.

From Los Angeles Times 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

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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