hank
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"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2021
Some people looked at Daniel Jones and saw a nondescript kid with a square haircut, a hank of side-comb running across his forehead in a straight line, and decided he was terminally unremarkable.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019
Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
Then pivoting that side hank of hair back over his bald center lane and twisting and flipping it a bit so it jutted out in front just right.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
I notice that no one ever brought the Candor girl I warned to the elevator hank, which means she must have gotten away.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
"This is just who I am!" she says, those wide eyes getting even wider, hanks of blond hair bobbing atop her head like leaves on a palm tree.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011
The paint seems to metamorphose into different things, including hanks of hair, statue-topped pedestals and piles of excrement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011
The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green hanks of the Trident.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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