white
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Already this year, thousands of white spruce trees in the area around Wisley had browned leaves in early August, a sign they won’t cope with a hotter climate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Draped in a torn white skirt and black fishnet gloves to complement, she wailed “I hate when girls die.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some studies suggest that exposure to particulate matter reduces the amount of the brain’s white matter, which helps brain cells conduct electrical signals and maintains connections between brain regions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"The backlog of defunct white goods is getting bigger by the day – they're at risk of becoming a mountain," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The gleaming white tile spreads in front of us like a road and the walls vibrate with the bass coming from the enormous speakers in the living room to the right.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
While Tayane Dalazen was bitten by a nurse shark - known as a more docile species - some influencers have been filmed touching tiger sharks and even great whites.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I just make egg whites at the house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Breakfast is the same every day: three egg whites and spinach made by the office cafeteria chef, who knows the protein-to-greens ratio the boss prefers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“As a result of that, there were a lot of whites who didn’t like that—at all.”
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Almost immediately, black elites recognized the opportunity for the individual and collective advancement of Negroes who could present themselves favorably to whites.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
Now 74, with a white beard and whiter turban, Ravinder is facing the possibility that he might be the last in that line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
The beam is whiter, more focused and brighter than the more diffuse light from halogen lamps fitted in older cars.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
The sea breeze cooled the sun, too, which shone whiter and feebler against aging clouds.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
A glaring cultural, racial and economic separation exists between the nation’s geographical north and south, the latter the wealthiest and whitest region of Brazil’s massive territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
Typically, the top layer, which is the whitest, is used as table salt.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
His suit was made of the whitest cloth she had ever seen.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
Sunday morning, in a Vermont town, my last day in New England, I shaved, dressed in a suit, polished my shoes, whited my sepulcher, and looked for a church to attend.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
They visited the Penguins' Rock enclosure - which is home to gentoo, rockhopper and king penguins - and fed the residents with blue whiting from a bucket.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022
People would come up the path to the house with bags of fresh-caught shrimp or a bushel of snapping blue crabs or a few whiting just off the fishing pole.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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