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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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Holding a white and orange slip, she said she had registered to vote earlier that day.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Dressed in a white blazer and red skirt, she recites De La Cruz’s biography as the real congressman looks on with a glowing smile.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Trading away the quarterback is the quintessential wave of the white flag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

It is “a form of camaraderie with the ancients. We want our students to develop a human perspective towards the ancients, and not to see them as these white marble busts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

There are a few white benches scattered around so the guests can sit and study the artwork.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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 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

A more mature batting style in whites this summer has also been noted.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I usually prepare the batter just before frying because it comes together so easily—you just whisk the flour with lukewarm water and the egg whites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Mayor Barry Trent stepped up to the podium, and he gripped both sides of it, hard enough that Moss could see the whites of his knuckles on his already pale skin.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

Also, LED lights "are a lot more directional, so you've got this much brighter, whiter light in a very directional point hitting your eye compared to the more diffuse halogen ones".

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

The Gran addressed the Uncle, whose face had gone whiter than the snow outside.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

This competitiveness is a byproduct of his perfectionism, necessitated by his father’s instruction to be “excellent,” and his desire to be accepted in the highest, whitest echelons of French society, a goal he later abandons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

I reached, trying to select the whitest, as the blue-shirted truckmen climbed through the loading door.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

The 295-page tranche that went out last night is quite repetitive, and the interviews are still mostly whited out.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2019

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

There are mixed ratings for Celtic Sea haddock, cod and whiting, with warnings that the populations of cod and whiting caught there are at dangerously low levels.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022

Vera Coelho of the group Oceana said “certain fish populations, like West of Scotland herring, Irish Sea whiting or Celtic Sea cod, will continue to be overexploited in 2022.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

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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