stripe
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When the EBT card is swiped, the fake reader scans and copies the information stored on the magnetic stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Eventually you think, oh, how many more combinations of a stripe can I do?" he admits, before adding, "But so far so good."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The intense pull of Seville’s silver drew fortune-seekers of every stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, red stripe and white upper body.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
I looked and knew the reason for the failure when I saw a deep rent right at the nearly invisible stripe of weld.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Thieves have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
More than five decades on from opening his first store, Sir Paul's company has become one of the leading British fashion brands, known for its signature stripes and colourful twists on traditional British tailoring.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Older incumbents of all ideological stripes swept the state’s Democratic primaries Tuesday night.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
I saw both of the Recruiters now: high-waisted navy shorts, gym socks with red stripes pulled up to their knees above low, mesh-sided sneakers, the kind that make you look fast and professional.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Young Anakin’s podracer, a striped cockpit strapped to twin shuttlecock engines, stretches down one side of an aisle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
At Mitsuwa Marketplace, the sprawling Japanese supermarket outside Chicago, Pastry House Hippo sells a frankfurter inside a beautiful yeasty shell, striped with ketchup.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Manchester United's new home kit, with its flat-knit striped collar and cuffs, is inspired by Red Devils kits from the late seventies.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The photo shows a vacationing couple seated in striped deck chairs beneath a brightly coloured parasol on a beach.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
So they came: friends, neighbours, bringing sugar cane and frosted sugar and sticks of striped candy for the new baby.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
We bought a bunch of road rental companies — all those orange barricades and cones and striping you see on the roads.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
If the lane striping isn’t perfect, though, the lane-keeping assist sometimes disables itself, so I don’t rely on it completely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025
“Crews will use these partial closures to re-position the existing K-rail and place temporary striping to allow for construction activities in the southbound lane,” Caltrans officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2024
Karl stood with his face to the charred building, soot striping it like war paint.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
