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glove

[gluhv] / glʌv /
NOUN
hand covering for warmth, protection
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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

In that sense, the court works hand in glove with the American people to create this mythology of the oracular balls-and-strikes court.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

A glove discovered in her neighbourhood also yielded no DNA evidence.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Cartoon-sized glove gives Dodgers’ pitcher his mojo back.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

“The permit is in the glove box, remember?” she continued, arching an eyebrow to emphasize her point.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Believing the fight was over, Colon's corner team removed his gloves and he was disqualified.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

In a statement, Homeland Security defended the plan to purchase the gloves.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Wearing disposable gloves, he used aluminum foil to collect the meteorite fragments and placed them in glass jars.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

"We provide material support - literally the gloves, shovels, protective equipment and body bags they use," said Patrick Griffiths, spokesperson for the ICRC.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

He then put on the newer oversized gloves that Uncle Jet had lent him.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

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

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

My gloved fingertips land on the small cartoon of Will, his sharp jawline, his unruly hair, his blue eyes, and the same burgundy sweatshirt he was wearing on the roof.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

That was followed a heavy, awkward ball to Mohammad Siraj that left Siraj walking off wringing his hand in pain after gloving it behind to Jamie Smith.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

But Jesse Winker took a circuitous route to gloving it and Rengifo recognized it, hustling to second for a double.

From Seattle Times Aug. 5, 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




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