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The other main reason that SpaceX’s cloud targets matter is the sheer amount of money that the company is doling out in pursuit of its ambitions here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

One of the challenges facing detectives on major cases investigations like the hunt for Sperino's killer is the sheer amount of evidence they dig up.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

And although our warriors are shooting down a significant number of them, the sheer scale and unrelenting pace of Russia’s strikes, specifically against our energy sector, are unfortunately having severe consequences.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The sheer technological sweetness, too—the hard problem followed by the elegant answer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Then he laughed, “Come on, tell me. How did you do it? Just sheer blind luck?”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

What kept these lipsticks from looking dated is that they tended to be stains, not thick creams or dry mattes, with a sheerer, lighter texture than one would traditionally associate with such intense hues.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2013

So he had a sheerer version tested and sold it in drugstores under the brand names Chez La Femme and Silky Legs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011

Once I got the hang of twisting it just a little, then I got sheerer coverage, but it seemed difficult to do it right.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2010

WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore his signature royal blue robe, but as Rowan got closer, he could see it was a sheerer variation than the one he had worn at conclave.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world’s biggest, sheerest rock walls.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Some will dismiss the concept as sheerest fantasy, or see in Raymond Shaw just a nuclear-age version of that older, less complicated Frankenstein’s monster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Into the deepest crevices, the darkest caves and the sheerest drops of our beings.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019

But it would be sheerest hubris to assume those are the only concerns.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2017

Kate’s hands were always busy, mostly at drawn work on the sheerest of lawn handkerchiefs.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Keep in mind that buildings, awnings, trees and sheers can decrease the amount of sunlight reaching the plants.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

The interior is properly decorated — flowered curtains, gauzy sheers, a hanging crystal light fixture — while a fan on the floor disturbs the peace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris, Ella Emhoff, helped the designer showcase his line of soft sheers coupled next to metallics and liquid-like gloves and leggings.

From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2022

Grieu recommends hanging sheers behind heavier window treatments.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

Terence hastened to obey; but, allowing the sheers to incline too far forward, the infuriated animal's legs touched the deck.

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Several news outlets showed video of a light blue Ferrari 812 Superfast with one of its wheels and side bumpers sheered off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

Hair sheered from victims to make cloth is considered a sacred human remain which cannot be photographed and is not subjected to conservation efforts.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

A bed complete with its patterned sheet and pillow visible inside a room whose outside wall had been sheered clean away showed the scale of the task ahead.

From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023

“Shape” boasts eccentric tutus — square, half, sheered off on one side — by the design duo Viktor & Rolf, no strangers to conceptual art and performance.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2014

Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important: and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

All of this sheering is a symptom of just how much fast fashion has reshaped our wardrobes.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024

In any case, I would prefer not to deal with such questions, because it will turn out the same as sheering a pig – lots of squealing, little wool.”

From Time ● Jun. 25, 2013

It’s not what most highlanders have in mind: “We want to make the final products,” says Delfina Apaza, rubbing her hands after hours of manual sheering.

From Time ● Dec. 30, 2012

Time and again, we see Constable glancing at the formula, using it, sheering off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oddly enough the other horse seemed also to be sheering away to the left, so that in a few seconds the space between them had widened a good deal.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis