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striate

[strahy-ayt, strahy-it, -ayt] / 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

Evergreen diœcious shrubs, one to twelve feet high, with angled or striate branches.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Calyx cylindrical, nerved or striate, 5-toothed, subtended by 2 or more imbricated bractlets.

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

Visitors come to explore the Taroko Gorge, a striated marble canyon carved by the Liwu River, which cuts through mountains that rise steeply from the coast.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 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

When we finally convinced ourselves to move, to make the day real, the sky was a cerulean blue with a light gauze of striated clouds.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

“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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