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jacket

[jak-it] / ˈdʒæk ɪt /


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He received applause for his fourth costume of the evening - a jacket and kilt combo, featuring the Loch Ness Monster.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

When I received this jacket, it was filthy and under $200, but I just washed it carefully.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

But the pricing is anything but snobby, which has helped make its $148 Effortless Pants an office staple and its Super Puff down jacket, starting at around $250, go viral.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Suit trousers were paired with a leather jacket, a boater hat and ballet slippers.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

I guessed, trying to get a look at the back of the jacket.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Recently, I’ve been interested in the reinventions of utilitarian clothing, such as bomber jackets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The few hundred in attendance spanned the full spectrum of AfD voters: young men in black bomber jackets and Lonsdale sweaters, elderly couples, barefooted hippies with braided beards.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Building sites, for example, must provide workers with suitable clothing such as jackets with built-in fans, as well as air-conditioned break rooms and canopies to ensure shade.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Authorities have recommended measures including providing safer boats and life jackets, dredging waterways, deploying water guards at jetties and terminals, and ensuring boat operators are properly trained and licensed.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

There were pieces that looked as if they belonged in the Middle Ages, dresses covered in lace and golden thread, feather boas, jackets covered in stripes, canes with metal heads, robes fit for Merlin himself.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

"Everyone who was sort of leather jacketed, leaning against the wall, too cool to dance, started dancing," recalls Pierson.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2023

At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss.

From Washington Post Jul. 29, 2022

Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2021

On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2023

Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I had grown too used to the jacket during my incorrigible days to let a single jacketing injure me. 

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London

In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.

From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by John H. White




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