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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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The Mississippi Legislature that convened to fill Brown’s empty seat had only a minority of Black members, with many white candidates vying for the job.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

The 7-foot-long sculpture is dressed in a white bathing suit, and leans back in peace, ankles crossed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

In the 2021 census, 93.8% of people in Wales identified as white, down from 95.6% a decade earlier.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Police were called to the Fairford site in southwest England after a local farmer reported seeing a group of men with several white vans engaged in "suspicious" activity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

We’d hung a white curtain across it providing a kind of screen while letting in light.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Born free in North Carolina in 1827, he was the descendant of free Blacks, whites, and Croatan Indians.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

As she watched the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fight racial discrimination in the South, Bass witnessed whites abandoning the Fairfax District as Black families moved in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Too many flat whites and you'll not only be short of cash - you could also develop a sleep problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

In October 1850, three hundred scared and angry souls, most of them black but joined by some whites, poured into Quinn Chapel to determine what was to be done.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

After 12 hours, they were nearly 50% whiter than similar teeth brushed with a saline solution.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026

Firstly, they are two to three times as bright as traditional halogens, and their "colour temperature" is bluer and whiter, which mimics natural daylight.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Eastern Altadena remains much whiter and more affluent than those neighborhoods to the west, according to U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

The afternoon was bleached hot white, hotter and whiter for Dicey with Sammy on her back.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

It is the whitest, wealthiest and best-educated of Arizona’s nine congressional districts, home to numerous upscale resorts, major medical campuses and a large population of retirees comfortably settled in one of many gated communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

Pike County, in Kentucky's fifth congressional district, is the whitest and second poorest district in the nation.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

The whitest layer the furthest away from the ground is regarded as safer to consume.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024

This innovation was derived from the intricate biological structure of Cyphochilus, the whitest known beetle.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

We always feel when something's been whited out because someone didn't understand or translate the culture.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

Photos show the reference was first whited out, then a laminated description without the sentence was taped over the original placard.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020

Sometimes he whited them out completely with gouache.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019

Everything is whited out at first, as if I’ve taken off my sunglasses on a glaringly bright day.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018

Outside, the sky had whited over with clouds, and shine spilled across the surfaces, sending motes before my eyes.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The species that are most frequently parasitised include salmon, tuna, squid, cod, hake, mackerel, mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting, sardines and anchovies.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023

The fried whiting has my name on it.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022

It said the fish were blue whiting, a rare species subject to quotas.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022

It burned with something else, whiting out the setting around them.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi


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