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nose

[nohz] / noʊz /




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A cut across the bridge of his nose, first sustained during his 2024 draw with Frazer Clarke, reopened against Dubois and left his face badly swollen and bloodied.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

As we crossed over into the Westfjords, she pressed her nose against the glass, taking in the vast, peopleless landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Debris from the separate Saturday attack, meanwhile, damaged the nose of a Boeing 787, according to the insurance report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a teenager, Gillian Maegan Montalbo had pimples that weren’t too bad — just a few bumps on her forehead and nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Then she snorts, shoving her nose against my chest.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

They then positioned the cup about 30 cm from their noses and left it there overnight.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

If there were any time to turn our noses up in defiance and refuse to engage with anything less than quality, it’s now.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

In the seaside resort of Palma de Majorca in the Balearic Islands, tourists, many in swimsuits, some standing in the water, watched the eclipse closely, protective glasses perched on noses.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

When Mary and Laura pressed their noses against the cold window pane they could see the drip of water from the eaves and the bare branches of the trees.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

He nosed out Mondego but was a head behind Atomic Age, who was half a length behind Atitlan, who was a neck behind Test Score.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The versatile guitar nosed its way into every type of musical ensemble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

The champions nosed ahead through a Lewandowski penalty on 10 minutes after Marcos Alonso handled Fermin Lopez's shot, but Celta equalised a minute later.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025

Norris had previously nosed slightly ahead on the straight approaching the corner.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024

The girl soon cried herself to sleep, but the strange animal nosed about the hut looking for things to eat.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

The entire Crace clan is resisting Susan’s nosing about, imperiling the brand and jeopardizing the Netflix deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It has returned 15.8% a year over the past decade, nosing out the benchmark index, which has returned 15.6%, through May 8.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

“Waiting on the End of the World” is the standout of the three choices, nosing ahead because there’s a great guitar line that winds through and both grounds and elevates the song.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

A night vision camera shows a bear nosing around her camp site.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023

It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong


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