sock
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The founder of sock maker Bombas, David Heath, got a tattoo—of the Bombas logo and its motto—after the company donated its millionth pair of socks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Uganda's Samuel Simba Cherop lost his shoe and had to run the remaining 15 laps with an increasingly soggy sock on his left foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Once you figure out how much money you can sock away, consider contributing to a high-yield savings account.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 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
They’re too small, and one of them split at the front, so you can see my sock.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
She adds that while socks and sandals have become a viral fashion trend "it's important to consider whether a trend aligns with the image you want to communicate professionally".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Americans sported socks and bobbleheads with his face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The founder of sock maker Bombas, David Heath, got a tattoo—of the Bombas logo and its motto—after the company donated its millionth pair of socks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Corpse flowers bloom for just 24 to 48 hours, and once opened, they reek of gym socks, rotten eggs and decaying flesh … or, well, a corpse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
High-bush cranberries taste—according to my grandmother—like somebody’s old socks.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
It was the first time a Yankee starter allowed four homers since James Paxton on July 26, 2019, at Fenway Park against the Boston Red sox.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
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
She worked on the farm, spun, wove, "done seamster wu'k" and knitted stockings, sox and gloves.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
Taxpayers will get socked with the bill later, and the cost will skyrocket if there’s a stock-market downturn, as sooner or later there will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Vietnamese savers have socked away around 400 tonnes of the precious metal at home, according to government auditors.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
She also opened a brokerage account and socked away the money from her pandemic- stimulus check.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
On Sunday, they lost to Minnesota after LeBron James missed the game because of flu-like symptoms and Davis exited in the first quarter after he was socked in the left eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
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 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
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 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
This was better than socking him in the arm.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
