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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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Another of the items in his collection, a Kangol rain jacket produced for the band's touring personnel, sold for £2,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Jensen Huang started Nvidia wearing garden-variety polo shirts but is now probably legally required to buy every single black leather jacket he comes across for the rest of his life.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

A $900 Arc’teryx Alpha SV jacket has more than 150 component parts from more than 35 suppliers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It started while I was helping my son search the attic for his life jacket.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

His hands shook as he pulled on his jacket.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Gemma and her daughter Casey travelled from Edinburgh wearing handmade custom jackets.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“This is brilliant,” said Joe Sever, 36, a medical sales representative who brought his son and twin daughters, who were wearing matching denim jackets with their names bedazzled on the backs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Footage from the scene broadcast by Turkish television showed the capsized ferry with passengers wearing life jackets sitting atop its orange hull.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Some only have sweaters, thin jackets; some, no socks, and some girls aren’t wearing tights or wool leggings.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Newly jacketed Hall of Famer Joe Thomas was added to the Browns’ Ring of Honor during a halftime ceremony.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Crossing a room, the jacketed general manager paused to hold a wine glass up to a light, making sure it was clean.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

The narrow two-story bar, jacketed in reclaimed fence boards and local art, became a hangout for the city’s artists, musicians and writers, as well as waiters, bartenders and baristas.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020

On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bullets differed only in jacketing and the shape of the nose.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White

If the sphere is charged and then the jacketing hemispheres fitted on it and removed, the sphere is found to be perfectly discharged.3 Numerous other demonstrations of this fact were given by Faraday.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various




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