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[huhs-kee] / ˈhʌs ki /




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With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Spiro favors crawling tempos and unadorned piano melodies, which leave more room for her husky voice.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

Even the husky TED-talking voice Holmes used to invest herself with greater seriousness and authority was a put-on.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2025

He was best known for his love of the husky dogs used to pull sledges around the island, and he raised two litters of dogs.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2025

It wasn’t husky or low, but her voice broke occasionally, as if her throat was dry, or she didn’t want to let the whole word out.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

The Tamaskan, a "wolfalike" breed created in the UK during the 1980s by selecting huskies, malamutes, and other dogs for a wolf-like appearance, has about 3.7 percent wolf ancestry.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

His charge was simply 31 sled dogs, mostly Alaskan huskies, who work in Denali National Park.

From Slate Jul. 4, 2025

So they advertised for pet-owning participants, who had huskies or malamutes, to join their study remotely.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2025

There’s orange cat boys, dobermans, huskies and an overwhelming favorite: golden retriever boys.

From Salon Oct. 14, 2023

Sun and Moon, gray Alaskan huskies, were tireless.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Belafonte’s voice had grown huskier when he released “Turn the World Around,” a song he wrote with Robert Freedman, but his energy was undiminished.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2023

Houston’s final studio album, “I Look to You,” came out in 2009 and revealed a once-mighty voice grown smaller and huskier.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2022

Now 79, McCartney’s voice has grown huskier in his later years but still sounded good during that 2019 Vancouver show.

From Seattle Times Feb. 18, 2022

Infections were concentrated among younger men as they flocked to signature summer events like Bear Week, part of gay culture for guys on the huskier and hairier side.

From Washington Post Aug. 5, 2021

Santa guffawed in a voice huskier than usual and hung up.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

It also found him singing in his huskiest register of the evening, to great effect.

From Seattle Times Oct. 8, 2023

Winny, as the family called him, was the huskiest Rockefeller, at 6 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would saddle their huskiest plow horse, ride into town, and shop for everybody.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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