stocking
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Iran and the Gulf states caught in the crossfire, meanwhile, are frenziedly stocking up on missiles and interceptors as if anticipating a return to hostilities.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
He explained that preparing for particularly bad weather usually involves stocking his van with spare roof tiles and clearing his schedule to deal with emergency calls.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
"In addition, stocking for new technology products and the approach of the year‑end peak purchasing season in China and in Europe and the United States will all help support Taiwan's export momentum."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She finds her cane and goes in her stocking feet out the door and down the hall.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Back in the States several months later I mailed her three pairs of nylon stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Plenty of Americans will find a Just Do It T-shirt or a fresh pair of Air Force 1s in their stockings tomorrow.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
She has coppery-colored hair, black-and-white-checkered stockings, and thick black motorcycle boots.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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