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[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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Each is pictured with a white child they cared for.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

He had figured out how to add white chocolate to Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies and put pepperoncini into Kettle Brand potato chips but this was tougher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

CHANDLER, Ariz. — At balloon-adorned tables in red, white and blue, a handful of voters inside a church gymnasium listened as Medina Moore explained what to do if federal agents show up at the polls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

With a skillet of white beans and sausage, plus sourdough for scooping.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Giant hydrangeas lean over, unable to hold high their giant blooms of pink, white, and lavender — now even heavier with the morning dew — from filling the spaces lining the path.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

He has the conventions of attractiveness, from his height to his pearly whites to the almost strategic amount of smile lines he has, but add them up and you somehow don’t leave with much.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

"I've got yellow ones, I've got knobbly ones, bobbly ones, whites, pinks," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 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

The prison admission rate for violent offenses declined 20% among whites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Clare wept for Captain, for the cinders and blue-blues and glass caps and crying kits and feather whites.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

It snowed all that week, ending a white November and beginning a whiter December.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

“We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint,” Ruan said in an interview.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

It was covered with yellowish rocks and the whitest asphodels set against the already hard blue of the sky.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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

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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