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Recent Examples on the Web Elba, with his battered ten-gallon hat and 100-yard stare, remains a hard-nosed enigma for most of it, cagey and remote. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2021 Using those ten-gallon hats, Delos collected information and stored it in the Forge with the aim of copying human minds into host bodies, which, if successful, could effectively make those people immortal. — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020 There were transparent, leopard-print latex dresses with visible black thongs underneath, ten-gallon hats and Texas-size belt buckles, short shorts, and python-print pencil skirts. — Channing Hargrove, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2019 Segun quickly discovers that his engineering degree is as useless as his ten-gallon hat is unfashionable. — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019 Unemployment is persistently higher and incomes are more unequal in California than in the land of the ten-gallon hat. — The Economist, 20 June 2019 Without our irrepressible divas, we’d be stuck with a bunch of preening clowns in megalithic ten-gallon hats who grew up in Dayton, Ohio. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2018 After one term in Congress, he was appointed Secretary of the Interior, and arrived for his first day of work on horseback, riding down C Street in a ten-gallon hat and jeans. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018 See More

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