bushiness

Example Sentences

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That Goldman is still holding on to parts of the portfolio suggests the bank has not been able to get out of the consumer bushiness quickly.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Authorities will postpone social security payments, including pension insurance premium payments, by small firms, individual bushiness and some severely distressed sectors to the end of this year, the cabinet said.

From Reuters • May 23, 2022

A native aster that I cut back in May — and again in June — for late-season bushiness grew lanky anyway, then was pummeled by a swarm of tiny insect pests I can’t identify.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

So imagine my relief when the Times informed me that, when it came to beards, smugness, not bushiness, was the thing.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2012

It was in fact one of those faces into which words sink as into a sandbank—a white, puffy, long face, with a moustache of obsolete bushiness.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir