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“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

"I didn't recognise the men. Or this woman. Her cheek was so flabby. Her mouth so limp. She was like a rag doll," writes the 73-year-old, according to the French-language version.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Forlorn but oddly hopeful, Sally became the film’s most empathetic character, thanks in part to the depth that O’Hara lent to the sort-of animated rag doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

“We do not care if the towels don’t match in our house — you got a rag and you got a towel, use it accordingly.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

He is already hovering over Richard and James, showing them how to scoop up a handful of sand with a rag and use it to scrub out the mess pots.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Now, those taxpayer millions are peeling off and floating away in ragged, aquamarine chunks.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

Scott McTominay was at the heart of an intelligent first-half performance before the 4-0 lead and the cavalry coming off the bench made it a bit ragged.

From BBC ● Jun. 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 government blamed the disorder on a ragged retreat by the Syrian Democratic Forces that left the camp unguarded for hours and made it difficult to re-establish security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

We passed a file of inmates, all dressed in baggy pants, ragged coats, and caps, gray faces in dim light; one had one of the most crooked noses I’d ever seen.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

“With me ragging on him for the entire book — a lot of that stuff was stuff I was feeling, and the book was a way to get it out,” Leggero muses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

He was always ragging Revere about falling off horses.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes