sheer
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But the sheer volume will be daunting, Content warned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Nvidia delivered a “shockingly bullish” outlook for its next fiscal year, in the words of one analyst — but the sheer level of expected growth has some investors wondering what’s behind such upbeat projections.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m dipping nuggets you’ve never heard of into sources you could never understand,” she declares bluntly, causing us to cackle out of sheer surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
One reason is likely to be the sheer number of EVs in China, he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Not an imitation of the strategy, or the craft, or the luck, but an imitation of the sheer bravado: the idea of stealing something that couldn’t possibly be stolen.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
But it would be sheerest hubris to assume those are the only concerns.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2017
Helen Frankenthaler’s canvases bare only the sheerest layers of color and paint. Yet with these works the artist straddled two of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
By the sheerest coincidence, his name was also Joe Russo.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2015
Kate’s hands were always busy, mostly at drawn work on the sheerest of lawn handkerchiefs.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Sometimes, he adds a pair of sheers behind the main curtains for better light control.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
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
The branches were soon lopped off, after which they cut from the tall slender trunks four spars about ten feet in length to serve for sheers.
From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by C.J. Staniland
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
Troops marching over it inadvertently hit its "resonant frequency", setting up such a strong vibration the bolts sheered.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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
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