stocking
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Retailers including Argos will be stocking products from Thursday, and the government expects other shops to follow suit.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, the bearish puts that they had been stocking up on over the past few weeks were getting absolutely crushed, according to Charlie McElligott, a cross-asset strategist at Nomura.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
In Paris, “Franklin wasted no time, hiring a French cook and stocking his cellar with over a thousand bottles of wine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Hundreds of people milled around a popular market in La Paz, stocking up on food products that had only just arrived.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ron looked slightly more cheerful as he delved deeper into his stocking.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
The tree twinkled in golds and reds, the prayer candles were nestled with holly, the stockings wiggled with glee, and the ceiling held fake snowflakes ready to shower down.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
