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cottony

[kot-n-ee] / ˈkɒt n i /




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She is posing exuberantly, her arms up-flung, with a cloud of blonde hair and, affixed to her swimsuit, a cottony, torso-sized mushroom cloud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

With a cottony touch, Messi brought the ball down with his hip before creating enough space to rip an eight-yard, angled effort past goalkeeper Francis Uzoho and into the far corner.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2018

The cab is painted an industrial orange that contrasts cartoonishly against the cottony landscape.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

For instance, Australian lady bugs were spectacularly successful in controlling the cottony cushion scale in North America.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2016

The airfull of little cottony pellets thrown off from the American poplar, copious as theflakes ofa January snowstorm.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly


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