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[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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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

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

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

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

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

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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