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[hat] / hæt /


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I would arrive armed with what I liked to call my anti-drowning armour: armbands, floats, goggles, and a swimming hat.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

"Is there a rabbit in the hat? No, I think the hat is empty," William Galston, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

“I’ve been wearing that red hat for 20 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

So, it’s important … that he’s kind of found something to kind of hang his hat on.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

An actor in a pinstripe suit and a straw boater hat jumped out of the Packard.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

When someone wears several hats, it can be surprisingly difficult to know which hat applies, and when.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Easy to spot, in their yellow bucket hats and yellow T-shirts., they'll be stationed throughout the city centre to help with things like directions and advice.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Rescuers and workers, some wearing hard hats but most in everyday attire, helped carry bodies out of the concrete tunnel, some covered in black soot.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

I struck out looking for one of those ridiculous horned Viking hats and settled for a green Iraqi trucker cap.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Among the regulars, who appeared to know very well what century it was, there were others who did not, women in long trailing dresses, cinched waists, and hats balanced on carefully pinned hair.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“My absolute favorite is Ca Com, the banh mi shop from the Anchovy team. They break down whole pigs in their hatted kitchen next door to make the jungle sausage in my favorite order.”

From Salon Apr. 24, 2025

I wish we had a better shot of the gloriously hatted cast of “The Gilded Age,” but one must play the hand one is dealt.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

Otherwise he doesn't remember much, "except that she was small, pleated skirt, hatted, didn't say much".

From BBC Sep. 9, 2022

To honor Shaffer’s continued volunteer efforts, staff at the hospital decided to create a photo album for her, filled with images of hatted infants.

From Washington Post Jul. 2, 2021

She is hatted and scarved and mittened up tightly, unwrapping herself like a mummy as she finds her seat.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

Officials also point out that another EA-6B squadron in Italy last year apparently videotaped some of its own flat hatting.

From Time Magazine Archive

And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts--what Marine pilots call "flat hatting."

From Time Magazine Archive

Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was staying there; I went there upon the occasion of my leaving my house, No. 39, Little Queen-street, Holborn, where I had carried on the hatting business.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by William Brodie Gurney

A. I let my house, No. 39, Little Queen-street, Holborn, where I had carried on the hatting business, and I went from thence to Donithorne's.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by William Brodie Gurney




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