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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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"While you're here looking for a school uniform, mum might see a jacket, dad might see some trainers," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

She once sported almost the exact same slate-blue jacket as Idris Elba.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

At the spring 2027 fashion weeks, which wrapped up in Paris on Tuesday, the industry’s focus was not always on the cut of a jacket, but also on stunts taking on class anxieties and AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Speaking over Zoom from New York, dressed in his typical wardrobe of black shirt and black sport jacket, Mungiu is wryly amused when I ask if that Dracula dig was inspired by personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her fur jacket is made of hairs so fine that three hundred thousand are packed into one square inch so that she's always warm and waterproof.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

One of its early poems read: “Oh, panic not to this docile juice / Finally, few of my jackets did distrust the goose.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Saying she wants to give “every bit of energy I have” to Theranos, Holmes shows off her closet, which contains black jackets and turtlenecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It’s also branching beyond jeans into ’90s throwbacks like slip dresses, baby tees and leather jackets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Zips were used to modulate the length of skirts, they ran across leather jackets and down a flared blue pair of trousers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

There were rocks on desks among the petrified yellow jackets, and glass on the floor right where you wanted to step.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021

Shooting a 160-grain jacketed bullet at almost 2,000 feet per second, it was a speed demon at the time.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

I said what I was against was strait- jacketed thinking, and strait-jacketed societies.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was really an offence to me when the jacketing ceased. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White


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