sock
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Stokes came to the post-match media conference with blood seeping through his sock.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Higher borrowing costs would sock it to home buyers, heavy credit-card users and anyone needing a loan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Sometimes a tall sock and a short one; sometimes a Paw Patrol relic from toddlerhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Asked whether he would indeed be the president's sock puppet, Warsh said: "Absolutely not."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
I can’t wait to put it in my sock.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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"I think she is going to blow our socks off," Gyllenhaal told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
She’s packed her suitcase too, full of socks she’ll throw away by the end of tour, and a wardrobe almost entirely of black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ranging from bicycles to socks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
A "pro" version of the adult shirt costs £90, with a matching pair of shorts and socks costing a total of £136.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The patient is the one in the cotton gown and wool socks, lying unconscious on the table.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
Between Scattergood's shoes and the feet they inclosed, were sox.
From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
Authorities tapped oil reserves that had been socked away before the war; a shift toward coal paid off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Winter storm Fern, which socked the Midwest and Northeast, likely boosted the number of claims filed.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Mahan socked money away during the summer months and hunkered down in the slow times, before things started picking up around the New Year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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
As was his habit, he padded downstairs in socked feet, eased Grandma’s front door open, and plucked the latest issue of the Logan County Gazette off the porch.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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The Los Angeles City Council signed off on a $15-billion budget for 2026-27 on Thursday, preserving Mayor Karen Bass’ police hiring plan while socking away more money for potential emergencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The country has been buying barrels far in excess of its domestic needs over the past year and socking them away in storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
You say you don’t have any money saved, but when you start socking away funds — which you should do as soon as possible — I’d recommend getting a high-yield savings account.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 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 snow came down with hard gusts, socking the sides of the pickup and blotting out the windshield.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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