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[hook] / hʊk /




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Nvidia would provide a financial backstop that would make banks feel more comfortable about lending money, given that OpenAI was on the hook for the lease payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“I knew she was going to try to hook me into some podcast, and I thought, ‘I don’t want to do this,’” Jerry told MarketWatch with a laugh.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

Automotive technicians can hook up cars to computers for diagnosis, and plenty of in-demand jobs—such as welding and electrical work—can trade as much on brains and attention to detail as brawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"He never looks in the right position to play the pull or hook shot," former South Africa captain Graeme Smith said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

He hesitated in the hallway and noticed that his backpack had been placed on a freshly hung new hook next to everyone else’s.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The tunes and chord changes fail to lodge in memory even after repeated listens, hooks don’t land, and tempos are generally drowsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Caroline Moore and Wendy Ireland took up their crochet hooks last November with the aim of creating a display for their village of Friston in Suffolk.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The results were “very close to the originals: same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

There’s an atemporal quality to Guitarrica’s music, at once vibrant and youthful, of its moment with pop hooks but simultaneously pulling from the traditional sounds of flamenco and rumba.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder


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