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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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Cartoon-sized glove gives Dodgers’ pitcher his mojo back.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

After he dominated the New York Mets for seven innings on Friday, Sasaki joked, “Probably my face got smaller. That’s why the glove looks bigger.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

“When it got into my glove, I don’t want to squeeze it, so I was just trying to bring it up. I wasn’t trying to do that.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Taveras said after the game that he was merely trying to block the rodent’s path with his glove.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

He catches my throw and wags his glove.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

“At first, the new works were more nostalgic, with vintage photos and female ephemera, like gloves and such,” Saar said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The white gloves are an obvious tell, even before you even get to early film shorts that the House of Mouse would rather you forget or overlook altogether.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

She wears a reflective vest, steel-toed boots, and, if she is handling chemicals, neoprene gloves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

"They are mirror images of each other, but you need a different glove for each. If you had two left-handed gloves, it wouldn't work because your hands can't be superimposed on top of one another."

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

Ben pulls on new gloves and lifts one of the Cogs from the box.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared on the night of January 31-February 1, with recovered security camera footage showing a masked and gloved person prowling outside her home in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Duckett had twice driven through the covers for four when Gay gloved Will O'Rourke down the leg side.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

The divers floated to them, their gloved hands touching the surface, searching for seams where the pipelines were at their weakest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

On a Wednesday in February in the Coachella Valley, more than two dozen farmworkers weaved up and down rows of strawberries, their gloved hands flicking quickly to pluck the fruit and stash it in boxes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

She cups my cheek in one warm, gloved hand, and turns me to face her again.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Joe Root is reprieved by Cameron Green's no-ball after gloving behind on 1 on day two of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2023

The Santa Margarita shortstop couldn’t have played it any better, gloving the ball and firing it to first.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2022

In public, we now cover and constrain ourselves as never before, masking our faces, gloving our hands.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2020

He wasn’t far from gloving a ball that snuck through the gate, either - an enduring issue for England’s No3.

From The Guardian Jul. 11, 2020

Mr. Simlins watched the shawling and gloving with attention.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan




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