rag
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With a few snips of her scissors, a plain whiteboard rag transforms into three strips of cloth perfect for braiding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hilton, born Mario Lavandeira Jr., has been a pop culture personality since the early aughts when he launched his eponymous celebrity gossip rag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“You were in the rag trade, but then your child or grandchild moved up and created this civic and philanthropic energy that came from that feeling of America as a refuge. That is really powerful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Trail hunting was introduced by the Hunting Act 2004 as an alternative to hounds chasing foxes and involves using an animal-scented rag.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Macon regarded her for a minute and then picked up a rag.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
He went out on the highest high in his final game, running the great German defender Berti Vogts ragged as Liverpool won the European Cup for the first time, beating Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1 in Rome.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now, those taxpayer millions are peeling off and floating away in ragged, aquamarine chunks.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
Few have gotten more out of three ragged chords than Diamond did in his first Top 10 single.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
This wasn’t “an argument between genteel parties in Congress,” William Hogeland writes in his history, The Whiskey Rebellion, “but…a guerrilla war on the country’s ragged margin, our first war for the American soul.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Guys hitting massive sixes, guys bowling rapid and spinners ragging it.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
The Gallagher brothers have made a bit of a sport out of ragging on each other in the press.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
We’ve all spent so much time ragging on Twitter and not really liking Twitter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
I heard somebody on the radio, or maybe it was in print, but they were ragging on “River.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2021
I wasn't too worried about the car—I was just ragging on him for old times' sake.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
