mantle
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"We've gone her whole life trying to tell her that she can't do stuff, and she's just taken on that mantle."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
PepsiCo’s new corporate campaign, designed to help shoppers connect the dots between its disparate offerings, features its various snack and beverage lines lobbying to carry the company mantle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Real Madrid’s Mbappé is the most obvious heir apparent to the mantle of “greatest in the game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
At subduction zones, one tectonic plate sinks beneath another, carrying water from the oceans down toward the mantle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
And Gandalf, too, was now riding on his tall grey horse, all clad in white with a great mantle of blue and silver over all, and the long sword Glamdring at his side.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He has shown an interest, perhaps un-Spurs-like, in seizing mantles like league MVP and being the future “face” of the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“Uranus and Neptune have disordered magnetic fields because they produce these fields in a thin water-rich layer in their mantles while our Earth generates its magnetic field in the core,” Militzer said.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
Unlike most animals, whose eyes feature retinas that send images to the brain, scallops have mantles covered with hundreds of tiny blue dots, each of which contains a curved mirror at its back.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023
In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Even as blue skies return, flood-weary farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in snow, to know there is worse to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Some farmers have learnt that mantled fruits soak up moisture and gain weight in the night time.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
Mateo has also studied golden mantled ground squirrels, which recognize kin but don't react in an obvious way.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 25, 2015
Chorizo is mantled with a parsley-heavy chimichurri and an unexpectedly nuanced aioli made with aji panca, a smoky-fruity Peruvian red pepper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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As he gobbled the bloody morsel, he spread his wings, fanned his tail and arched his body over the food — an instinct known as mantling, protecting the prey from other predators.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
The hawklet then covered the entire meal with his wings, a behavior known as mantling, which hawks employ to hide their kills from other birds of prey who might be flying by.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2017
For some time she had experienced the sensation of clouds coming over her, mantling thought.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
He lifted the helm to his nose and sniffed the mantling.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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He saw the superb polish, the fresh padding, and the new mantling set behind.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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