collar
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I adjusted my button-down collar in my hallway mirror, having agreed to meet Barry at Outback Steakhouse in La Habra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the best performances, rare though they may be, this music grabs listeners by the collar and never lets them go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
This includes Callin, who has had two major crashes, suffering a concussion and a bruised collar bone, but no lasting injuries.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Lord Fredrick pulled at his shirt collar as if it had tightened like a noose.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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These characters, representing mythical beings, are ornamented with fine drapery, ruff collars and jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Everyone was extremely friendly and on the fashion front, no popped collars in sight — only gym clothes and cool-looking fencing gear: mask, chest protector and underarm protector.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
While some lament the decline of suits and ties, others are relieved to ditch the starchy collars and pantyhose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
His win comes as a growing number of blue worker collars in China have in recent years been making their mark in the literary world.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Some members of the Whaleback pack are collared, providing a good starting point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
He gave me a look that said: This poor guy has much bigger problems than not wearing a collared shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Big stock owners are hedging with collared positions—selling upside calls to buy downside puts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
It was much like a man’s suit, gray with a collared shirt and tie, but formfitting and with trousers hemmed at her knees.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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To do so safely, Blair suggested collaring and keeping cats close on a well-fitted harness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Their small, fuzzy bodies made collaring them difficult, too.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2024
Fortunately, another research team was carrying out a collaring project to track matriarch elephants.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2021
Constituents also came to him during off-hours, collaring him when he was shopping.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 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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