serrate
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The color pink gets its name from flowers in the genus Dianthus, commonly known as carnations or pinks, a reference to the serrate, or “pinked,” edges of the delicate, sweetly fragrant flowers.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022
Or like a jagged, serrate viola through Shostakovich’s last, 15th, String Quartet – its abrasive intorsion like a barbed needle that speaks of desolation, exclusion from closure or repose.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2018
The most ornamented of any of the Wu-Tang Clan’s solo albums, GZA’s “Liquid Swords” is a fully realized universe of kung fu imagery, street-corner mythology and serrate rhymes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2012
A. Nòvi-Bélgii, L. Rarely tall; leaves oblong to linear-lanceolate, entire or sparsely serrate, the upper partly clasping and often somewhat auriculate; heads 4–5´´ long; rays bright blue-violet.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The eerie ambient music that drives “Obsession” — so artfully serrated and delicately mangled by Burwell — emerged from a counterintuitive creative nuance that AI could never capture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Worse still, it's at odds with the serrated edges of Abrams' lyrics.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Much larger harvester ants stand nearby with their serrated jaws open, appearing vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026
The same company has revived it at its Broadway house, the Hayes Theater, in a crisply staged and terrifically acted production directed by Trip Cullman that keeps the play’s serrated edges as cutting as ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
As the mouth came closer, my eyes went straight to the huge, serrated teeth, gnarly and sticking out at different angles.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
When they got back in studio post-pandemic, they wanted to shake up their longstanding approach to tracking live instruments themselves, then serrating them digitally.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Another Palisades pitcher prepares a knuckleball by serrating stripes on the bottom, so that it looks almost like a basketball.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018
Leagues beyond the shadowy hills serrating the purple horizon, it was lost like a bad dream yielding to the light of day.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
The speed of the work was dependent upon the operative, as he determined by his lever movement the instant at which the automatic serrating hammer should be released.
From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg
From time to time the surface of the absorbent is renewed by serrating it with a comb-like instrument.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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