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Benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures are trading about 10% below year-ago levels thanks to strong domestic production and comfortable spring weather that enabled traders to sock away fuel in storage caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
One smart strategy is to count out six months of expenses and sock that away, then line up more to keep depositing into that account as time rolls forward.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
Even now, she records many of her vocals at home, with a sock stretched over the microphone to prevent popping and sibilance.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
"Come with me," he said to Spess, who had watched in mystification while Jeremy peered into his sock drawer, "I want you to help me find something."
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
Setayesh was then identified by her socks, she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The stakes are certainly higher than misplaced socks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
These giant pants had these huge pockets in them, and I would put a big, gallon Ziploc bag with a clean T-shirt and clean socks inside the pant pocket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
But over the years, the mushy yellow-brown legumes "became an acquired taste like a strong cheese can, because you know how cheese can smell like dirty socks," the 47-year-old Arizonan said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Her shoes were Mary Janes the color of candied apples and her white socks were pulled right up to her knees.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
On August 18, 2017, a new age in astronomy dawned, appropriately, with a tweet: “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2019
On 18 August, astronomer J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas at Austin began the public rumour mill when he tweeted, “New LIGO. Source with optical counterpart. Blow your sox off!”
From Nature ● Aug. 23, 2017
He confessed in 1951 about the overload, “Two drawers are full, so I’m moving my sox over.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
“They’ve got a couple of big hits the last couple of nights,” said Red sox catcher A.J.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
Im returnin today by parcels post the red sweter an the gloves that has no fingers an the sox that you wear over your head an your pictur.
From Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie by Breck, G. William
He socked a booming double into the left-center field gap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Winter storm Fern, which socked the Midwest and Northeast, likely boosted the number of claims filed.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
There is a no-shoes policy in the office, the floor is lined with ornate rugs for socked feet, and a chef named Fausto serves lunch six days a week for its 250 employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
The Angels, as a whole, socked 19 home runs across the eight-game stretch — the power appeared to help them surge to third place in a division more than up for grabs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2025
The woman, her head forward and bent, suddenly padded out from her back rooms in thickly socked feet and stood waiting for me, silent.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The first five years of retirement can be crucial as you transition from getting a regular paycheck and socking away money to actually spending some of your hard-earned savings.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
The average household is socking away a third of its income, compared with less than 5% in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Lenders in countries as far away as Germany and Japan are socking away hundreds of millions of dollars in anticipation of loans going bad.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
The first issue of Captain America featured Cap socking Adolf Hitler in the jaw, some nine months before the U.S. entered WWII.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024
“I think the people of this state need and deserve a helping hand, and I’m going to see that you get it!” he shouted, socking the air.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
