For instance, a very slender friend of ours had come to get one more hole punched in her belt by Susie and was now walking around chatting with people, her belt cinched nice and tight.
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Lydia Davis,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2026
The original Liu cinched waist raincoat has been updated in tonal burgundy, while the Athena style comes in navy blue and black with butter yellow sleeve detailing.
The sow bounded away a few feet and then glanced back at him.
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Jan Thacker,
Outdoor Life,
3 Sep. 2026
Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.
Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.
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Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.
On fourth-and-1 at the New England 45-yard line early in the fourth quarter, Lock faked a handoff, booted left and threaded a short pass through the arms of defensive tackle Milton Williams to Smith-Njigba, who took over from there.
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Andrew Destin,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2026
Food and drink Hints of the Meiji Era (1868-1912), the period in which the prison was built, are threaded through the hotel.
The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
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Fedor Zarkhin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Sep. 2026
This wasn’t true, but the core idea was tethered to a real phenomenon.
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