collar
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Although she’s normally impervious to noise—even the most blood-curdling shriek from the many horror films we watch together can’t stir her—the sound of my voice emerging from her collar gave her pause.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
The driving force behind that is Padre Pepe, a chatty parish priest in jeans and checked shirt rather than a dog collar.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Huge winners and losers within sectors, but on net sectors that will win are computers/coding, architecture, life sciences, consulting and other white collar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Imagine Beto O’Rourke with a clerical collar and capacity to mint money.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Mr. Wong tugged at the standing collar of his jacket.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
AFP previously investigated a multilingual trend of videos stealing seniors’ identities to bait users into sympathetic purchases of slippers and dog collars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Both Hole’s Courtney Love and Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland claimed to be the first to perform in vintage, threadbare dresses with Peter Pan collars and puff sleeves, accessorized with knee socks and Mary Janes.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Among these, put spread collars on U.S. materials, U.S. tech, U.S. energy, and China equities offer a combination of low prices compared with history and max payout ratios of greater than 8 times,” said Goldman.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
Hamston said the project had been able to track released pine martens using collars for the first six months before remote cameras took over.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Sometimes, mounted on the sawhorse in the harness-room, with collars and hames and tugs hung all about him, Jody rode out beyond the room.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
Big stock owners are hedging with collared positions—selling upside calls to buy downside puts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
She wore a long skirt from Aritzia, a collared blue tank, a belt and loafers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
In addition to the raven data, the team analyzed movement patterns from 20 collared wolves.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
He undid one of the buttons of his collared shirt and looked down at the floor.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Tagging and collaring is an underfunded process, said Domingo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Their small, fuzzy bodies made collaring them difficult, too.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2024
But even on Key Largo, collaring prey will only ever be one of a suite of tactics experts use to try to keep pythons at bay.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2023
The UK-based non-profit organisation, Fauna & Flora International, has been involved in efforts to protect the Ustyurt population by establishing a new anti-poaching ranger team and using satellite collaring to monitor saiga movements.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2021
The muck seemed to climb me, rising up my arms, my chest, collaring my throat like a noose.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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