sheer
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Galperin is similarly skeptical of any potential features that could meaningfully curb stalking: “It is not salvageable technology because of just the sheer scale of propensity to abuse.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Theirs is among the most storied and heated rivalries in Corporate America, exacerbated by their proximity and sheer longevity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The findings challenge the long-standing idea that intelligence arises primarily from the sheer number of neurons in the brain and the connections linking them together.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hochman said the sheer volume of recordings, and the fact that Flores is a sworn law enforcement officer, played a role in the decision to file felony charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Not once had I seen him shout for the sheer glee of it or kick over milk crates just to watch them break.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Even the sheerest muslin lay hot and heavy on our laps.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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
A white monochrome gave way to pastels, bright pinks and purples, toned-down gold and finally black, accented by sheers and sequins.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Beautiful, crisp window sheers can make the room feel bigger.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
Also, a rope extended from the head of sheers, and made fast at a distance on each side to steady them.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
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
Images from the area showed a segment of the steep, green side of the peak known as Chiquihuite sheered off above a field of giant rubble with closely packed homes remaining on either side.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
“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
Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her.
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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