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He was wearing a white tank top and orange shorts when he was found, the Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The man was described as bald, white, approximately 5 feet 9 and weighing 225 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Each white dwarf orbits alongside a red dwarf star.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Videos have also been circulating of people dressed all in black, standing in military-style formation as they stage a "silent vigil" in memory of a white teenager who was murdered in 2004.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
She has a crystal chandelier, a white fur rug, and a silver-tufted headboard with crystal studs.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
Naylor suspects that younger great whites are more likely to mistakenly bite humans as they start to mature and focus on new prey like seals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Producers of Loire Valley whites send 45 percent of their exports to the United States and Beaujolais sends 30 percent, whereas just 16 percent of champagne exports go to the US market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The fellow had dark eyes that, for a second, completely covered the whites of his eyeballs.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
It also concluded that headlamps were perceived as "too bright", and that "whiter" headlamps and those on larger vehicles were "generally perceived to be especially problematic for causing glare".
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
Even this very short journey had turned Ron whiter still, and once they had settled him on the mattress he closed his eyes again and did not speak for a while.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
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
And she gave me the smoothest and whitest stone I had ever seen.
From "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
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
Others, including flatfish and whiting, were shown to leave those areas.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
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
It was just like him to give me the catfish and make believe it was the whiting.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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