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: a covering for the hand and wrist having a separate section for the thumb only
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Your rescuers quickly wrap your naked torso with a spare parka, your hands with mittens, your entire body with a bivy sack.
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Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Wear a hat, scarf and insulated gloves or mittens to reduce the chance of frostbite or injuries to your extremities.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 13 Jan. 2025
In other words, a motivated individual could likely get their mittens on some shrooms and hit the slopes.
—Chryss Cada, Outside Online, 10 May 2025
Judges have seemed sympathetic, pushing pause in some cases on summary dismissals while in others sounding alarms even as Musk gets to keep his mittens in the data.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
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Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Wear a hat, scarf and insulated gloves or mittens to reduce the chance of frostbite or injuries to your extremities.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 13 Jan. 2025
In other words, a motivated individual could likely get their mittens on some shrooms and hit the slopes.
—Chryss Cada, Outside Online, 10 May 2025
Judges have seemed sympathetic, pushing pause in some cases on summary dismissals while in others sounding alarms even as Musk gets to keep his mittens in the data.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mitten
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“Mitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mitten. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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