hard hat

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Recent Examples of hard hat Later, the host dons a hard hat to tour a multi-billion-dollar, decades-long project that will ease freight and passenger train bottlenecks with new bridges and underpasses. Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026 Crazy prediction Jim Schlossnagle will wear ear plugs, a safety vest and a hard hat at Blue Bell Park. Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026 After devoting much of his LACMA tenure to construction projects, Govan sounds ready to take off his hard hat. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2026 Security cameras capture a masked man wearing glasses and a hard hat spraying security cameras with blue paint inside a Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel parking garage. Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hard hat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard hat
Noun
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • Sporting a traditional top hat, then-Prince Charles walked alongside his grandmother, the Queen Mother, at the 1979 Royal Ascot.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Tipping his top hat to the surrounding cameras, Tucci looked refined in a polished suit layered over a white button-up shirt and a light gray waistcoat.
    Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Jason sported a bright pink T-shirt, blue shorts, sunglasses and a white baseball cap while sitting beside his wife with his arm draped around her shoulders.
    Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • The star—who ended his engagement with ex Katy Perry last June—finished off his look with cargo pants, a baseball cap, and tennis shoes.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • The gear included an air gun, tape, black leather gloves, a stocking cap, a rubber face mask , court records say.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The arrest has drawn widespread attention, as the child had just returned home from preschool with his father and was wearing a Spider Man backpack and blue stocking cap with bunny ears when detained.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • And with very little preparation, the girl — dressed in a yellow T-shirt, cut-off jean shorts and a cowboy hat — proceeded to sing an extended acoustic version of the song with one of country music’s biggest stars.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 June 2026
  • One reporter decided to ask a Sweden supporter about his cowboy hat, and wound up getting a Buc-ee's commercial.
    Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026

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“Hard hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20hat. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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