handkerchief
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Afterwards Nawat appeared at a press conference wearing a tuxedo and openly weeping as he theatrically dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief, claiming he had been "betrayed".
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
Mr. Pärt has referred to music as “the handkerchief for drying my tears of sadness, the source of my tears of joy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, Barrientos said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
Indeed, using the flag as a handkerchief has at least twice led to courts-martial.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
When we reached town, Lily Saylor stood on her porch, waving a white handkerchief at me.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
The insider further revealed that the lovers spent 20 minutes exchanging their handwritten vows, and that they handed out custom handkerchiefs, embroidered with a “TT” and lyrics from Swift’s 2014 song “Blank Space.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Decades ago, the air was so polluted that her children wore handkerchiefs over their mouths when they went to school.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
At the forefront is Unitree, which went viral in January after its humanoid robots performed a Chinese folk dance live, marching rhythmically while tossing and twirling handkerchiefs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
She anticipated his wants, pulled out the threads on the cuffs of his shirt, and embroidered a dozen handkerchiefs with his initials for his birthday.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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