jacket
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With her motorcycle, leather jacket and buzz cut, Judith looks, Katy observes, “more like a jacked, angry Sinéad O’Connor than a detective.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Green Day’s new film, “Nimrods,” believes in the enduring power of a black leather battle jacket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hailey Bieber modeled it with an unzipped jacket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Their daughters ran to a cafe to retrieve the life jacket and flotation ring used by Craig, who said: "I think the floating devices have to be closer to the front of the shore."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
He’s wearing the same navy jacket as the other agents milling about, but his rust-colored beard and wrinkled forehead are way too familiar.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
"When the boat capsized, most of the people scrambled to get the life jackets but most of them did not even know how to use them," the 45-year-old told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
About $1,200 of her total went toward uniforms for her daughter’s private school, where single shirts and jackets from designated vendors can cost $50 to $70 each.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Footage played by local Indonesian news outlet iNews shows large numbers of people in life jackets on what appears to be a lifeboat.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Publishers deliberately design jackets and covers that will pop on Instagram and #BookTok.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Inside there are two seats, a wall of jackets, and a poster promoting Lucky Lanes.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"Everyone who was sort of leather jacketed, leaning against the wall, too cool to dance, started dancing," recalls Pierson.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
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
I said what I was against was strait- jacketed thinking, and strait-jacketed societies.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
