sheer
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"It's really terrifying just to see the sheer size of it and the environmental impact, it's not just necessarily the noise but the effect on the community," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The sheer complexity of rebuilding damaged energy facilities translates into an extended stranglehold on global supply—and higher oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“I also think post-Epstein, post-#MeToo, post sheer volume of terrible behavior that men get away with, it has a different resonance today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I will never forget the confusion, and then the sheer terror, of that day.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Jefferson threw up his hands at the sheer stupidity of Adams’s proposals, calling them “the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
But it would be sheerest hubris to assume those are the only concerns.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2017
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
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
Keep in mind that buildings, awnings, trees and sheers can decrease the amount of sunlight reaching the plants.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
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
But no! she has not succeeded, the other sheers off, and continues firing at a distance.”
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
“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
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
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