gnarled
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He opens “Digger” lounging in a bed soaked with cat pee, tempting an elderly feline named Maggie to lick wet chow from his gnarled pinkie nail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
With Richards’s gnarled, withering guitar lines and Jagger drawling and declaiming, there’s no mistaking the band behind “Foreign Tongues.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
He's very experienced, a gnarled pro in Scotland, there's nothing he doesn't know about this league.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
I waved him off with a gnarled fist.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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