striate
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Li offers hints of how Field and Adelaide’s destiny came to pass, with a preface and short flash-forward scenes that striate the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Among the prettiest forms is one which is pale rose or lilac, blending to white at the center, delicately striate with purple-dotted lines, and having a rich purple spot in the center.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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
They're calling that large, striated blob Baby Cas A -- because it appears like an offspring of the main supernova.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
But travel to the Falkland Islands near the Argentine coast, and you’ll find not parrots or crows but freakishly smart falcons called striated caracaras.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
They looked like soft marbles, pink shooters striated with red, inside of which an orange/yellow liquid gleamed and threatened to ooze out if the outer membrane broke.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
“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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