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nail

[neyl] / neɪl /




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London-based nail artist Jess Young believes designing your nails can be an added way to help people feel "comfortable and confident" in themselves.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“We should be fighting tooth and nail to retain all of our companies,” Walker said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Both dissents hit the nail on the head.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Adding in unreliable or inaccurate government data reporting is “like driving one more nail into the proverbial coffin,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

He shook the nail polish to mix the color and began to apply it to Minna’s nails with what his mother used to call his “surgeon’s hands.”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

London-based nail artist Jess Young believes designing your nails can be an added way to help people feel "comfortable and confident" in themselves.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“He’s as tough as nails and he is more pissed off than anything that he was the only one that stood up to Magneto. He’s disappointed,” says Dodd.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Equity may be comfortable for now — but debt is a bed of nails.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

She rushed off to have her nails varnished at her favorite salon, which was destroyed in the mall strike but has reopened in a building nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Somehow, it’s embedded under my nails, in the crease of my elbow, in the space between my lashes, and in my teeth.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Pollsters basically nailed Hong’s share of the vote: Averaged out, surveys over the past month showed her at about 41 percent; she ended up with 39 percent.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2026

Everyone agreed that they nailed it with the coach.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

After years of both slight miscalculations and substantial errors, it looked to me like he finally nailed the formula.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Banton nailed Arshdeep to point to depart for 39 and Jacks fell soon after, then Bethell hit the gas, helped by Bishnoi bowling two no-balls in the 17th over.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

An oval-shaped wooden sign was nailed to the post with the name “Rio Kermit” carved into it.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

But he found a groove in the third session, second fastest by just 0.043secs and then nailing a beauty of a final lap.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Lee is known for making some bold and accurate calls, advising investors to buy stocks during pandemic lows and nailing the 2023 bull market.

From MarketWatch May 1, 2026

Alloway praises the Philadelphia-born Pedretti for nailing Cherry’s comedic moments yet also grounding the character in a traumatic backstory — a balancing act the director knew she was capable of after watching “Hill House.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

"I think for us, it's always about nailing those specialist positions," said Erasmus.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

The fitting and nailing on of the planks was labor intensive and nerve-racking.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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