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Veterinarians will continue to monitor Jackie’s blood and white cell levels and are expected to test her for signs of contamination from less common heavy metals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
He is clean-cut and invariably dons the same uniform as corporate France: a dark tie, dark suit and crisp white shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Another announces, with delight, “I made these incredible marinated white beans and put them on toast.”
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Outside court, the group's small white posters were printed with a QR code that linked to a parliamentary petition for "full statutory regulation" of the funeral industry.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He reminds me of the poor white sharecroppers who tilled Mr. Thompson’s land.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Bake until the whites are set and the yolks are cooked to your liking.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
While Fuchs' first senior managerial role saw him win just nine of 31 matches in charge of the Exiles, he got off to a victorious start in cricket whites.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
In other words, finding a young shark could suggest that great whites are not simply passing through Mediterranean waters.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Nothing in the opinion or in the subsequent legal strategy made clear that segregation had afforded elites a crucial means of exercising social control over poor and working-class whites as well as blacks.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
A banner ad for a bottle of Tide’s laundry detergent most recently spotted by Yoder blasted out the message: “Boosted: Cleaner, whiter, brighter, fresher.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
While Villaraigosa did well in Latino communities in central L.A. and on the Eastside, Newsom captured more votes in wealthier, whiter areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
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
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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
In 2021, Guinness declared it the whitest paint ever, and it has since collected several awards.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
Just for a small and a forgotten time I have had full in my eyes from off my girl The whitest pouring of eternal light— He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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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
Omakayas remembered the tiny whited pit in the skin of her grandmother’s cheek, but was still surprised to hear that Nokomis, too, had suffered the disease.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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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
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
The mass of blue whiting, a subspecies of cod used in the manufacturing of fish fingers, fish oil and other products, covered a surface of nearly 32,300 square feet, the nonprofit said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
Sometimes we go all out and send TJ to get whiting from the Portuguese fish market in the Ironbound.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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