glove
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Yes, it flew in on the goalkeeper's side of the wall and he didn't lay a glove on it.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Public IB downgrades the Malaysian rubber glove sector to underweight from neutral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Early in the second, a right hook knocked Hrgovic off-balance and his glove touched the canvas.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
According to the company website, the glove is designed to disrupt sensory nerves without puncturing or burning the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
And I hugged the package, which I’d cleaned off with a bottle of water and a handful of napkins from Mama’s glove compartment, tight to my chest as we moved through the hallways.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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She saw the child, who was fully dressed with gloves on, and thought it was a doll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
As her husband of more than 40 years lay dying in a hospital bed, Kate Baxter was not even allowed to hold his hand without wearing protective gloves.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Holding somebody's hand with gloves is not good," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Specialty gloves could offer higher margins, but increasing competition may limit pricing power, she reckons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Declaration flailed her arms at me, her gloves flapping around her fist.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Roebuck immediately recognized the long gun in the man’s gloved hands.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
During a stop at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, an owl perched on her gloved arm made her squeal like the girl she had been during her first visit there on a grade-school field trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
Again, it mattered little with the U.S. getting that goal back three minutes later with Tillman bending a free kick from the top of the box off Vasilj’s gloved right hand and into the net.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
His gloved hands were clasped behind him above the tails of his coat.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Pope, standing baseball style, miscued Cameron Green on 42 and Root only survived gloving behind in the same over because Green overstepped.
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
They could not but smile, but waited for the king, who, when he had had his laugh out, explained the allusion to the Conqueror’s leather dressing and gloving lineage.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson