curly
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Police described Noah as white, with curly ginger hair, and said he would not respond to his name being called.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Growing up she was skinny brow queen with big curly hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Although the transfer has yet to be finalised, the club teased the signing on social media, external with an image showing Vozinha's familiar curly hair.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
After her cancer went into remission, she wanted to restore her long curly hair and began taking biotin supplements after reading about them online.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
In his memory, there were brief glimpses of her—a flash of copper eyes, short curly hair, a birthmark on her shoulder—but they never lingered.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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The researchers found that the animals had longer, curlier hair, but no evidence that the mammoth's fat-increasing gene had an effect.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
“I love my hair because the curlier and the more strength that you have, the better your twist-outs are,” Henson said with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
Jasmine wrote this question out slowly, carefully, so it’s even curlier than usual.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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I don’t recall which of my appeals drew Todbaum’s curliest scorn, only that it got pretty curly.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Big nose and big ears and the curliest hair at the fair.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
It was Di at her curliest, at her fluffiest, Di conscious of her bracelet, Di smiling.
From Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale