white
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It is felt most strongly in the memorial garden on the site of the fallen school, and among the white arched monuments of the cemetery.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Sonny and Chloe call each other “Bobo,” and in a nice, authentic touch we see he has written that nickname in ballpoint pen on the white sidewall of his sneaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
With Van Vechten, author of the controversial 1926 novel, “Nigger Heaven,” comes the question of how white patronage impacted the cultural output of the era.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hot Chocolate “I don’t drink coffee, but I do like a Starbucks white hot chocolate with skim milk and no whipped cream.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
A beautiful lady, mounted on a magnificent white horse, was in the center of it.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
We dyed our hair with food color and bleach and kept it straight with egg whites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The prison admission rate for violent offenses declined 20% among whites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
A more mature batting style in whites this summer has also been noted.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
When he turned to face her, his eyes were blank, whites without irises, the same as hers when she let her hair down.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
After 12 hours, they were nearly 50% whiter than similar teeth brushed with a saline solution.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
A banner ad for a bottle of Tide’s laundry detergent most recently spotted by Yoder blasted out the message: “Boosted: Cleaner, whiter, brighter, fresher.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The beam is whiter, more focused and brighter than the more diffuse light from halogen lamps fitted in older cars.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Pippo’s sobs died away, and Fenoglio’s face turned even whiter than Basta’s shirt.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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It is the whitest, wealthiest and best-educated of Arizona’s nine congressional districts, home to numerous upscale resorts, major medical campuses and a large population of retirees comfortably settled in one of many gated communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
The whitest layer the furthest away from the ground is regarded as safer to consume.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024
This innovation was derived from the intricate biological structure of Cyphochilus, the whitest known beetle.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
“We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint,” Ruan said in an interview.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
She was drawing up idioms in the list, visions of me in the whitest raw light, instant snapshots of the difficult truths native to our time together.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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We always feel when something's been whited out because someone didn't understand or translate the culture.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Photos show the reference was first whited out, then a laminated description without the sentence was taped over the original placard.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
Sometimes he whited them out completely with gouache.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
Everything is whited out at first, as if I’ve taken off my sunglasses on a glaringly bright day.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018
Omakayas remembered the tiny whited pit in the skin of her grandmother’s cheek, but was still surprised to hear that Nokomis, too, had suffered the disease.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
The species that are most frequently parasitised include salmon, tuna, squid, cod, hake, mackerel, mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting, sardines and anchovies.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023
There are mixed ratings for Celtic Sea haddock, cod and whiting, with warnings that the populations of cod and whiting caught there are at dangerously low levels.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022
Vera Coelho of the group Oceana said “certain fish populations, like West of Scotland herring, Irish Sea whiting or Celtic Sea cod, will continue to be overexploited in 2022.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
It was just like him to give me the catfish and make believe it was the whiting.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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