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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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

More places to sock away fuels “could be a game-changer for Asian countries.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

It didn’t work: By early this year many sections of the bridge were littered with locks and other rubbish, including unused tampons, a foot influencer’s single sock and a pill bottle with a Hungarian label.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

I picked up a dirty sock and wiped my puke-covered foot clean.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Americans sported socks and bobbleheads with his face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

A nearby store is smaller, with a single coffee pot and a tiny selection of branded items like Styrofoam coolers and tube socks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Then, just past the stream, Buzz and the boys saw a pair of ash-covered socks hanging from a tree.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

The rest o' my outfit was white shoes that hurt, and white sox, and a two-dollar silk shirt that showed up a zebra, and a red tie and a soft collar and a blue coat.

From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring

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

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

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

But Boston was socked in, so the plane flew straight to Frankfurt from Philadelphia.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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 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

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