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pocket

[pok-it] / ˈpɒk ɪt /






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It's understood that the payment of that money by the King is to avoid leaving the Crown Estate out of pocket.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Voters tend to pocket success and focus on what’s bothering them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“So when I say my parents came to California with $12 in their pocket, it’s because, Steve Hilton, my parents came to California with $12 in their pocket.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Akyn, whose office serves roughly 70,000 voters, said that no matter what the challenges, she was determined to deliver fair elections in this pocket of rural Georgia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Dad pulls his much smaller roll of money from his pocket and peels a twenty from it.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

In 1997 the world’s fastest computer occupied about 2,500 square feet, but today we have that computing power in our pockets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“The NFL pockets, they evaporate quickly, and you’ve got to get the ball out,” Kubiak said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"The void that China fills is the void in people's pockets, more than anything else," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Volunteer bakers are paying out of their own pockets so children in need do not go without a cake on their birthdays.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He turned his trouser pockets inside out, showing them to be empty.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

His team also pocketed a hefty sum -- several million dollars -- for travelling to Luanda in November 2025 for a friendly marking Angola's 50th Independence Day celebrations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

According to forms filed with the IRS, in 2023 she pocketed $907,923, a payout that included a $495,000 bonus, a number that exceeded her base pay at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He won gold in the 100m butterfly here back in 2014, while he pocketed a bronze in the 50m, but he got a gold in that on the Gold Coast in 2018.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The actual amount pocketed by the scam artists was far less.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

He finished with a score of 7–3, tied for second place, a point behind first prize, and he won $59, which he pocketed without revealing his windfall to his mother.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But with rebates flowing, counterparties are now suing some of these companies for pocketing those higher costs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Rather, they are doing arbitrage, such as buying a bond while selling an equivalent futures contract to another investor, pocketing the difference in price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

A 2017 investigation by NPR and Frontline documented numerous examples of waste and fraud, including one developer pocketing tax credits without building the required housing.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

She presses the hundred back into my mother’s hand, pocketing the business card and looking past my mother to meet my eyes.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott




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