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Nepal was overwhelmed by the sheer scale of destruction from the tsunami-like wall of freezing water and debris triggered by a glacial and rock collapse on the Nepal-China border on August 26.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mr. de Moura, brilliant but unassuming, keeps the project on track through sheer doggedness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Is such sheer, universal familiarity the root of love — the kind of connection that everyone from Keats to Keaton wrote about — or does it trap you in one place, stunting your growth?

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

By reworking classic tracks and cleverly remixing songs to accommodate absent members, the group relied on pyrotechnics, their signature live band and sheer stage presence rather than elaborate staging.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

I see one man, a respected linguist, throw his mug in the lake from sheer frustration.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

April and Melanie and Marshall were on their way home through the alley when, by the sheerest luck, Melanie noticed the loose plank.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

Sometimes, he adds a pair of sheers behind the main curtains for better light control.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 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

First, though, dust your shades, sheers and curtains by patting them with your hands.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021

Meanwhile, the crew got to work and rigged a pair of sheers over the stump of the mainmast, firmly staying it with guys leading aft to the taffrail and forward to the windlass-bitts.

From Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harold Piffard

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

Mr. Lux said most county election offices received little damage — except in Bay County, home of Panama City, where wind sheered off its roof — and computer servers and voting machines remained intact.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018

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

Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes.

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