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Dr. McGowan said: "It's sheer luck we chose this protist to test our sequencing pipeline, and it just shows what's out there, highlighting just how little we know about the genetics of protists."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

You’d come down in the morning, and just that sheer amount of nature every day I found really moving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Aside from the sheer fun of it, the more demanding kind of reading Mr. Marriott champions helps us make sense of the world, furnishes the mind and elevates our species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

City could face relegation given the sheer scale of the case and there is even speculation that they could be stripped of their titles.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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

Even when tasked to outfit the girls in monotone uniforms, the costume designer Shirley Kurata adds individuality with textures of sheers, cutouts and pleats.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Denim faded into sheers, or was treated with a spray-paint effect.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 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

Beautiful, crisp window sheers can make the room feel bigger.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021

A tackle applied half-way up sheers, or long spars that require support in the middle.

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

For a weekend, the tour sheered off some of the distance between the nation’s executive and a curious, divided public.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Troops marching over it inadvertently hit its "resonant frequency", setting up such a strong vibration the bolts sheered.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2014

Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by pretending not to understand; but generally he answered all I asked most frankly.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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