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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

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

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

The heads, all wrapped up, were at the back of his sock drawer.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

As insurance, I tuck my shirt in, pull my socks over my pant legs, and wear ankle-covering gaiters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The story, as it were, centers on a woman named Lisa Blupey, portrayed by stage veteran Jessica Vosk, who runs a small business selling socks but is drowning in financial statements and malfunctioning A.I.-powered platforms.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

I do not require the personality socks to remain hidden.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I think she is going to blow our socks off," Gyllenhaal told reporters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

There was a faint smell of dirty socks, which emanated from a pair of sneakers next to the front door.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Though it was a very warm night for early spring—a hot night, indeed—he wore uncommonly heavy woolen sox, which were very much "coming down" about his ankles.

From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

It was admirable that Wemby played chess and devoured paperbacks, but what was going to happen in crunch time, when an opponent socked him in the gut and tried to shake him?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Winter storm Fern, which socked the Midwest and Northeast, likely boosted the number of claims filed.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025

CJ Abrams socked a two-run home run in the seventh off Dodgers reliever Jack Dreyer, his second in as many games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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 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

“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