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[hair] / hɛər /


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An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

You see everybody on camera all the time, and so it liberated every woman in the room to “OK, good, she knows her hair is going crazy right now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

The increases were partially offset by hair care sales, which ebbed 0.8% to $128 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Institute for Supply Management said its survey of manufacturers rose slightly to 55.5% in October from 54.5% in the prior month, just a hair below a four-year high.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The truth is, I couldn’t care less about what my hair looks like; it does nothing to stop the feeling of all the sand embedded in my hair.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The lactase enzyme is predominantly at the tip of the villi, or the small hairs in the small intestine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The $50,000 was a gift, not a loan and that, to split hairs, is being used as the bargaining chip.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

It even features traces of fingerprints and brush hairs are still visible.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

One visible example was that older animals developed fewer grey hairs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

The hairs on my neck were permanently at attention and the goose bumps on my arms and legs were big enough to hatch into actual geese.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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