hat
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One recent afternoon at Avenal City Hall, Preciado, wearing a Panama hat and still calling himself mayor, said he would gladly step down—if the courts make him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Prosecutors played soundless footage of him that night, wearing a maroon shirt, dark hat, jeans and Converse shoes, and he was transported back to Utah County and formally booked on 12 September.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
In one video, he visits Wild Bill's Western Store in Dallas, Texas, to buy a cowboy hat and boots.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The black cowboy hat Laura sports is straight from a photograph of Wilder as a girl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“My land, my land,” he repeats, moving, slapping his hat against his leg.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Mama Margaretha and her atas and their children live together in several traditional houses, which look like tall witches' hats, ranged around her family's tombs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Once he was holding hands with a girl and once he traded hats with a field worker and walked right through us wearing a poncho and field hand’s sombrero.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Skydance, private equity firms RedBird and TPG, and Reddit co-creator Alexis Ohanian have also reportedly tossed their hats in the ring, setting up early sales meetings with Letterboxd.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
UPS equips Reyez with hats, sleeves and towels made with cooling technologies developed by Mission, a brand that also supplies the fabrics to professional sports teams and athletes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
In seven states, thousands of Americans stood weeping on riverbanks and train depots, hats in hands, hands over hearts.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
“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
Edgar Allan Poe writes children's books: "Still that hatted cat comes calling, Nameless Things with him enthralling Children who, their caution falling, Heed their parents nevermore."
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
But her hatted hair was beautiful, deep red-brown.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye.
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
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
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.
He said a friend of his there, who carried on the hatting business, wanted a boy.
From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
