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headbands

  • plural
    of headband.
    headband
    noun
    a band worn around the head; fillet.

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Now there are wearable technologies—such as headbands designed to aid meditation or sleep—whose effectiveness remains debatable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Bigelow, a Greenwich Village pharmacy that made the plastic headbands Bessette was so fond of, reported a 500% sales increase since 2023, and Selima Optique have rereleased the style Bessette wore because of popular demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Observations show the people use narrow outrigger canoes, live in large communal huts, carry spears, bows and arrows, and wear fibre waistbelts, as well as necklaces and headbands.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

When India resumed their first innings on 204-6, England took the field in white headbands as The Oval celebrated the life of former England batter Graham Thorpe.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025

There were men with blankets over their shoulders and rifles in their arms, men wearing headbands or tall black hats, women in long colorful dresses with shawls.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac