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Low yields, by contrast, reduce income for savers, forcing them to sock away more cash to meet their goals, which can hit spending overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
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
He tugged off his muddy sock and tossed it clumsily away from him.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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It also argues that White Fox's advertisements for its four-striped clothes and White Fox-branded socks feature people wearing "genuine" Adidas items.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
I asked Muse to buy socks every three weeks and it was like, OK, just let me access your data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
One, two, three people already in the secret room; four as Eusie’s black shoes and scarlet socks disappeared.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
Well Al you remember me writeing to you about that little girl down in Texas that sent me the note in the sox.
From Treat 'em Rough Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer by Frank Crerie
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
Say half of the 97 million barrels of oil that Rystad Energy estimates China has socked away so far this year had shown up in storage facilities at Cushing, Okla., instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 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
He put up his rather large, socked feet on the filthy coffee table.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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“I do have some clients in their 60s who have a lot of discretionary income. They’re just socking away everything they can. Most people don’t have that kind of discretionary income,” Gilbert said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 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
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
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