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If you’re a fan of Croatia, I think you might want to stop reading here and go do something less stressful, like operating a jackhammer, or wrestling a sock drawer full of cobras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Asked whether he would indeed be the president's sock puppet, Warsh said: "Absolutely not."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

You may need to sock away an additional amount before making your move.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026

The paper was stretched tight between us, like two stubborn dogs who refused to let go of a dirty sock.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

She remembers being repeatedly asked what colour socks the child had been wearing, and replying that they were cream.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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

The stakes are certainly higher than misplaced socks.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 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

Wet socks are up there on my list of things that should be banished from existence.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Bags of biscuits hard as rocks, Smashed my teeth and gave me sox!

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.

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

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 Mariners catcher will forever be a part of team lore thanks to the walkoff homer he socked two Septembers ago to end Seattle’s playoff drought.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

When I finished, I got back into bed and socked my pillow, my teeth clenched.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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

This was better than socking him in the arm.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia