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lace

[leys] / leɪs /


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Last year, she modelled for Di Petsa at London Fashion Week, closing their show in a white lace two-piece, flanked by an angel.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Women in lace mantillas and gold jewelry pass on their way to somewhere ornate.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Since then, several technical studies and two test trips with a full-scale reproduction of the tapestry have been undertaken to meet the logistical challenge of transporting a work as delicate as lace.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

There’s a friendship bracelet from a volunteer trip to Haiti, a horseshoe found on a Grand Canyon trail and antique lace from a market in Bruges, Belgium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

She wore a simple white lace dress with a half wreath of white flowers in her hair.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The director laces a 16th-century period drama with a series of mysteries in his latest film, which centers on a samurai who rebels against the local warlord.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Heading into the exhibition I was eager to see what 18th-century ribbons and laces if not frock coats and gowns would be displayed as ancillary objects.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

On paper, the dialogue may seem stiff and silly, but Lewis laces these words with enough sorrow to fill the room.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

"It feels like you're wearing big winter gloves every day, all the time so you can't actually feel what you're doing like zips and buttons and laces on your shoes."

From BBC Jan. 19, 2026

I tucked the laces inside and lined them up perfectly parallel at the foot of my bed.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Despite the vast trove of limited series available these days, over-the-top ‘80s-style melodramas like this, sagas laced with delectable malice, simply do not exist today. “

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

To some degree, the AI race is laced with inflation concerns for the stock market in the near term, as strong demand for chips has led to pricing power for companies that make them.

From MarketWatch Jul. 5, 2026

Microplastics also get released into the environment when people use products laced with the particles.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

A couple of days later, I was in our nation’s seat of power, the Florsheims in question laced firmly onto my feet.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

In fact, the one time I’d gone there out of curiosity, I’d spotted Irene and an older woman, swishing down the aisle with shopping bags laced on their arms.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

On Saturday, Belfast's Agyarko gets the opportunity he has craved since first lacing up the gloves when he faces IBF light-middleweight champion Josh Kelly in Saudi Arabia.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

So he decides to keep appearing in clubs to tell tales of his relationship woes, lacing the commentary with rueful remarks that are vaguely comic, though nothing he says is actually funny.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

It also feels like a moment — to use a sports metaphor, which I’m not an athlete — that you’re lacing up your shoes.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2025

He admits to targeting another summer or two as an England player, but doubts he will follow Anderson lacing up the boots into his fifth decade.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2025

Francis was sitting on the side of my bed, lacing his shoes.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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