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striate

[strahy-eyt, strahy-it, -eyt] / ˈstraɪ eɪt, ˈstraɪ ɪt, -eɪt /


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It’s about contemporary Italy, which is also to say that it’s about the divisions of class, region, sex, nationality and ideology that striate the peninsula.

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2022

Volume loss affected the gyri, subcortical perisylvian area, insula, and part of the striate nucleus.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

As soon as you start to stir the pot, add in people of different socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or value systems, the myth of a totally open, flat and transparent organization starts to striate.

From Forbes Sep. 12, 2013

P. 6-9 cm. globose then exp., regular, viscid, orange red then yellowish, margin becoming striate; flesh turning grey; g. yellowish; s. 6-9 cm. white then grey, especially inside; sp. 7-9.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Culms flattish, striate; spikelet 3–6´´ long, many-flowered; tubercle flattish-cap-shaped, as large as the body of the achene.—Wet sandy soil, from Mass. along the coast to Fla. 5.

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

Soon after the start of the Civil War, Church turned the atmospheric effects of a rising sun, striated clouds, and stars peeking through a patch of sky into a tattered Union flag.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2025

Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2024

Now, researchers in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering report that the non-allergenic wheat protein glutenin successfully grew striated muscle layers and flat fat layers, which could be combined to produce meat-like textures.

From Science Daily Jan. 29, 2024

Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a threesided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

“I just don’t like this striating of our culture,” she said.

From New York Times Nov. 13, 2016

His conclusion was that the advocates of the Iceberg theory had formed "too extravagant notions regarding the potency of floating ice as a striating agent."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

It is found striating white sandstone about Tákwá and other places in the interior.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton




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