sock
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Stokes came to the post-match media conference with blood seeping through his sock.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures are trading about 10% below year-ago levels thanks to strong domestic production and comfortable spring weather that enabled traders to sock away fuel in storage caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
She traced her fingers over the sock and buskin masks—one sad, tragic face and one happy, comedic one—waiting for the door to open.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
"I think she is going to blow our socks off," Gyllenhaal told reporters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ranging from bicycles to socks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Walmart has traditionally been known for selling low-price jeans and bins of bulk socks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
He gamely wears striped socks and short shorts; she sports Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and clings to her character’s emotional truth like it’s a bucking pterodactyl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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
A light suit of pajamas, a pair of extra sox and a thin rubber cape are greatly to be desired.
From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine
Vietnamese savers have socked away around 400 tonnes of the precious metal at home, according to government auditors.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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 stood, socked in grime, without a shirt upon him, in his wet pit.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Persistent inflation also means Americans are socking away less for retirement or a rainy day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“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
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
