jacket
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Local journalist Miguel Dantas explained the security arrangements were scaled back compared with the first trial, when he wore a bulletproof jacket and there were snipers on the roof.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Nieuwenhuijsen knew from Levine’s podcast that he was also researching a potential companion to his unnamed “Lady,” that portrait of a young Black man in a green jacket and cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The post also featured Dordick dressed like the Terminator, with the signature shades and leather jacket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Here you go,” Mom said, walking up to hand us each our own orange life jacket.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Their distinctive orange life jackets, purchased from a local sports shop, made them easy to identify.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
Even though it’s winter, most of the kids don’t have down jackets and gloves like me.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"Everyone who was sort of leather jacketed, leaning against the wall, too cool to dance, started dancing," recalls Pierson.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
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
These bullets are often jacketed by a harder metal like copper or steel.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2018
Surely not, he thought; though he could barely move, jacketed as he was to his seat by the wind.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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
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
The object of jacketing is to prevent the loss of heat from the steam within the cylinder by radiation.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
