mitten
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People kept partying but I needed to hunt for the lost and found station, which had thoughtfully posted a picture of my mitten online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
The day he arrived, on the bottom of a fishing boat, along with about 80 seasick travellers, he was hired by a mitten factory.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Hemlock is a small town located in the crook of the Michigan mitten, between the thumb and the fingers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
In molecules, chirality can make biological or chemical units exist in two versions that cannot be perfectly matched, as in a left and right mitten.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
Madge is waiting at the intersection, red mitten waving, trombone case at her feet.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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Walters gave him a box filled with handmade items, including piles of mittens, hats, and other items he’d crocheted for children; Collins dropped the box off with a church deacon.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
It warms the inside and lets you study the cold without mittens.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
"I communicate with Nuuk from this tablet," Mathiassen said, pulling off her sealskin mittens to turn on the device.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
There were plenty of intrepid female war reporters, but on Flanner’s sole trip to a battlefield, she dressed in pink pants; red, fur-lined cowboy boots; and matching mittens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
In each stocking there was a pair of bright red mittens, and there was a long, flat stick of red-and-white-striped peppermint candy, all beautifully notched along each side.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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