apron

One surefire way to skirt the second apron is to have young players on cheaper contracts, and another is to employ an older player more interested in chasing championships than collecting cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"We'd see her leaving in a work apron."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"It is not little kitchens and pots boiling away, mimsy little things being placed on plates. He is cooking with fire... he stands there in his leather apron and it's roaring like fireworks," Coren said.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Odds are it won’t happen because it can’t; sign-and-trades are not permitted if the player acquired keeps a team above the first apron.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

I rose from where I had been kneeling beside a crate and brushed bits of packing straw off my apron.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

There’s a team of uniformed servers with white shirts and gray aprons, though they don’t take orders directly; table service isn’t allowed under the current zoning restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

They wear matching “The Real Food Show” aprons.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

The U.S. military has since 2019 spent hundreds of millions of dollars on upgrades for Muwaffaq Al-Salti and other facilities, according to U.S. federal contracting documents, laying aircraft aprons, taxiways, munitions depots and other infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

In recent years, North Korean TV shows have featured men wearing aprons and doing housework - a sign of how much has changed there.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

Today, my home economics teacher is teaching us how to sew aprons.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson