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toothy

[too-thee, -thee] / ˈtu θi, -ði /




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Pictures of Isaiah Harrison from 2024 show a bubbly, heavyset boy with a toothy smile and full cheeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Apparently taken by surprise, Albarn jumps off the stage to watch, with a broad, toothy grin spreading across his face.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The adventurers reckon that they’re probably safe because it’s off-season for the toothy beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

But since we know what that toothy nemesis is capable of, we almost feel sorry for the soldiers-for-hire that go up against it.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

It’s a toothy smile that looks nothing like Dad.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Some of the bones belonged to the already-discovered Steropodon galmani, a shorter, stumpier and toothier ancestor of the platypus.

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

As shark experts call for a rebranding of the marine predators – suggesting that attacks be relabeled "incidents" or "interactions" – Cape Cod has begun to tentatively embrace its toothier neighbors.

From Fox News ● Sep. 17, 2021

During the rollicking song “Feed Me,” she is played by five puppeteers who manipulate oversize tendrils and a toothier flower head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2019

The effect is a dreamlike carnival of images and ideas that suggests a toothier Adult Swim, or “In Living Color” as filtered through Nell Irvin Painter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018

We got some newer, meaner, toothier guys that were straight out of Seal Team 6 — serious knuckle-dragging master chiefs.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2017

And the mosasaurus—that was the biggest, meanest, toothiest, most unstoppable mosasaur there was.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older




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