mask
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To keep headaches and eye itchiness at bay, Katherine Sharpe now puts on an N95 mask before getting into an Uber or Lyft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It consists of a mask that is placed over a victim’s nose and mouth and a suction device that creates negative pressure to pull out a stuck object.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The testing method is simple: a patient breathes into a cotton mask for about 10 minutes, and the mask is then sealed in a bag and taken to the lab.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Raj Kumari Tamang, a 20-year-old woman wearing a mask, went to the morgue looking for her father.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Eudora now turned to May, her face a mask of confidence, her eyes pleading with her granddaughter.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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A man has been charged with concealing his identity at a protest in Portsmouth, after police warned they would arrest demonstrators using face masks and coverings.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Iwansyah said the agency had requested additional masks from the provincial government, and was encouraging people to buy their own.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Around 200 people, some wearing masks, confronted police in riot gear after they descended on the Eastney Landing ferry port area, where the migrants were landed.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The characters aren’t professional actors, so it’s fine for them to wear their masks loosely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
I think when people wear masks, they’re different.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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A day before that incident, hundreds of masked protesters massed in Dover, further east, briefly blocking access to the town's busy Channel port to demonstrate against migrant crossings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
But management said that figure masked progress it was making in its efforts to appeal to families, as well as gains made from e-commerce sales and a collaboration with Pokémon.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“She masked, she masked, she masked,” Leffler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But the glass on vitrines is nonreflective; lighting is state of the art; and windows, once masked by curtains, now reveal the landscape, thanks to UV-filtering film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The princess's masked garden party starts in two hourglasses' worth of time.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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At that point, when female social relationships become exponentially more complicated and masking becomes more difficult, their mental health outcomes split sharply from those of their male peers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the second, those shocks are masking deeper imbalances: Demand is outstripping supply and letting businesses make price increases stick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Moseley says the exact opposite: "There is really high-quality work on masking, and it's startling and upsetting to see such work be denigrated."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Vaccines, masking, improved indoor air quality and acquired immunity have all kept the virus at bay so that morgue trucks no longer fill the streets.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
He grabbed some masking tape out of the desk drawer and began to create makeshift handles looped on the back of the poster.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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