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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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Back then, Jensen Huang was Mr. Cool with a black leather jacket and megaphone of support for artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

British Vogue noted after the appointment that Rose counts Rihanna and Timothee Chalamet as fans, and that rap star Kendrick Lamar wore a custom-made jacket for his wildly popular Super Bowl halftime performance last year.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Similar gusts almost set him on fire as sparks from his pipe were blown onto his jacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"Augusta has given me some of the greatest moments of my life, and I'd love nothing more than to chase another green jacket at such a special place."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Wes is dressed exactly like the boy in my Flash: black jacket with Black Alliance logo, Apple Watch, and red sneakers.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

With his signature leather jackets and a tendency to wax on about a “new industrial revolution,” Huang has captured the limelight.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Mostly dressed in variations of dark jackets and trousers, long scarves and open-neck shirts, he would often make a beeline for the media scrum outside the courthouse.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Clad in caps and jackets emblazoned with their respective national symbols, Lantratova and Lubinets, often appearing side-by-side, on Friday oversaw the local ceasefire in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Columbia Sportswear is giving away a 40-foot “survival bunker” stocked with puffer jackets, hiking shoes, jars of food, and a robotic dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

There were pieces that looked as if they belonged in the Middle Ages, dresses covered in lace and golden thread, feather boas, jackets covered in stripes, canes with metal heads, robes fit for Merlin himself.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017

Surprised, Peanut hesitated, then broke for his basket, not noticing that Ben trailed him and not noticing that a flight jacketed figure trailed Ben on the sidelines.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

It has the advantage over methods of lagging or jacketing that the manure can be thrown over any pipe, water-seal, washing apparatus, &c., even if the plant is constructed in several separate items.

From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds

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


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