striate
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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
Spike nearly cylindrical, more or less compound, green; bristles few, longer than the spikelets; flower striate lengthwise and dotted.—Cultivated grounds.
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
Achenes of disk and ray similar, striate, without pappus.—Perennial herbs, with toothed, pinnatifid, or divided leaves, and single or corymbed heads.
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
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
Inside the second is a single cluster of aqua-colored Amazonite, gently striated with white.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“I just don’t like this striating of our culture,” she said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
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
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
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