cat-o'-nine-tails

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Noun
  • Five straps of differing widths hold the foot in place as the shoe’s upper balance on top of a six-inch heel.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For suitcases, this may include dual main compartments with zippered mesh closures and compression straps, a pocketed divider, removable laundry or shoe bags, and interior zippered pockets of various sizes to keep your smallest essentials in order.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.
    Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Prices could stabilize, but not decrease, by next year as crop yields have increased, said David Branch, a sector manager at Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute.
    Luke Fountain, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mixed oak woods, pine and birch, upland rowan.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Looking through sketchbooks of Kaish’s time at MacDowell, Fisher found many drawings of the flowers and birch trees that would have surrounded her.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In areas that once boasted generations of oak and hickory trees, beech and maple now make up large portions of the midstory.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The easiest way to do this is to assess whether your kitchen cabinets are warm (with red, yellow, or orange undertones), like cherry, oak, hickory, and pine; or cool (with gray undertones), like white oak, ash, maple, or birch cabinetry.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Made from weather-resistant rattan, this set can stand up to most weather.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Bread baskets and faux bamboo flatware also complement rattan.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Pictures of Piper the dog, who last year went through an awful health scare after having a rawhide treat.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Chinese laborers, rare for that time, made rawhide bags on site to take the limestone and dump it into iron buckets on an aerial tramway, according to Meniketti’s report.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Safety Nick Scott was able to recover the ball in the red zone and whip a scoring opportunity off the Packers’ plate.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Starting November 4 at participating Whataburger locations, customers can enjoy the new Frosted Berry Whatafresher, a frosty drink blend featuring sweet blackberry flavor, including real blueberry bursties, and a cloud of cold whip.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Engineered with innovative construction techniques, each curve of the shoe flows in plush cowhide suede, rising just above the ankle in a continuous fluid form.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Just as cowhide leather exploded in usage only after the advent of chrome-tanning in the 1980s because of the performance improvement that technology gave it, mycelium has needed this sort of breakthrough that Rei-Tan provides to turn it from an interesting raw material into a great product.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
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