hairy
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“It’s so funny because it’s like these people have maybe never seen a woman in a bathing suit with hairy legs,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"They're much less hairy than other pigs - Rana had ginger fuzz when she was born, but that's gone now," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"You can kind of picture them like hairy particles," said Moore.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
As the Washington Post reported before the hearing, Mullin has never served in the military, but he has often told stories alluding to being in hairy situations “overseas” while on “special assignments.”
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026
He nodded at the huge, hairy man behind her.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Bumblebees have much hairier bodies than honeybees, making it easier for dust and airborne particles containing heavy metals to cling to them before being carried back to the nest with pollen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Things got even hairier when Usha’s execrable husband, Vice President J.D.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
But, like in the real world, when the human stakes rise to a level where movie ethics are a smaller concern because actual life is on the line, things get hairier.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
To them, the hairier the situation became, the more exciting it was.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The writer-directors are themselves a real-life couple who adopted a child, so ostensibly we’re getting an exaggeratedly autobiographical peek into what self-preservation on the cusp of dadhood looks like at its off-the-charts hairiest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
She said I was the hairiest thing she had ever seen.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
A lumbering, chunky beast clad in a sheep-like coat of hair, it is the hairiest and fattiest of pigs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
“This will be — probably — your hairiest caucus of all time,” one of the show’s anchors cracked wise to the cartoonist.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Malik has the hairiest toes, and for the last few weeks, his right big toenail has been all black and blue and yellow because he jammed it doing a backflip.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
