comb
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But there’s affection in Jean’s moralizing, as he brings out his own comb to run it through Berenger’s unruly hair—where it gets stuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
People used speedboats and more jet skis to comb the waters surrounding Koh Samui and towards the nearby island of Koh Phangan searching for the family, the Bangkok Post reports.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Staffed by a combination of HSI experts and outside consultants, it developed software tools to comb the data for information that could help agents pursue criminal suspects.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In addition to state parks personnel, several agencies have collaborated to comb through the park for Brophy including the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team; the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
His hair was just as unruly as his brother’s, but he felt no similar urge to comb it.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
He now combs the hallways for bright aluminum cans to seize and pour down the drain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
I certainly stood out among the perfectly creased khaki pants and palm combs and top-buttoned flannels contrasted with my clueless bowl haircut and Ninja Turtle suspenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Many vets do not treat their own pets monthly, the committee heard, instead regularly checking their pets' fur with flea combs and restricting use to when fleas were spotted.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
A travel set of marbled beard and mustache combs that’s as handsome as dad himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
She would not store her supers for the winter until the bees had sucked out the last remaining bits of honey from the combs.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Meanwhile, agents from the New York FBI office combed through a trove of documents received from the Met Police, following the search of Bayoumi's properties in Birmingham, the BBC has learned.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The May PCE report isn’t likely to be taken for granted by the market; it will be combed carefully and methodically for signs to either add to or dial back rate-hike bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
They combed through CulturaX, one of the largest open-source Chinese-language data sets that AI labs use to train models—about 189 million documents scraped from the Chinese-language internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
His beard is all matted because he ain’t combed it in months, and it makes him look old and scruffy.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
In Kathmandu, families of some of the missing foreigners said they were combing hospitals and morgues for any information.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Cohen found MOTS-c by combing through the 97% of human DNA that doesn’t encode for genes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mr. Potter is less interested combing through the Caesars’ allegedly lurid deeds than probing the workings of the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But after combing through the info we do have, Slate’s Heather Schwedel renders this brutally honest verdict.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Momma is rubbing coconut oil into my hair and combing out the tangles, and let me tell you, it is one good feeling having your scalp rubbed.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
