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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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Relations between white and black New Yorkers deteriorated during the 20 years preceding the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Here we see United's full-backs highlighted in yellow and United's wingers highlighted in white.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

In a horror movie pastiche, Mendoza is dogged by middle-aged white men compelled to tell him that their wife is Asian, which does sound like something from personal experience.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Costume designer Maya Edmond dresses Big Ant thematically: white tees when he’s trying to be good, black duds when his demons are winning and comic book-y jailbird stripes during his pivotal teenage arrest.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

On the other side of the fence was a white birch woods, above our heads the blue Brabant sky.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Look closely at Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, one of Japan's most famous works of art, and the brilliant whites seem almost painted onto the scene.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

Since 2018, the California Beach Shark Safety program at Cal State Long Beach has tagged great whites in local waters and shared their locations with lifeguards.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

“As a result of that, there were a lot of whites who didn’t like that—at all.”

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Today, he adds, “black Americans are completing college at a lower rate compared to whites than they were in 1970.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

John Jones joined them, opening a tailor shop to clean and repair elegant suits and dresses for the wealthy whites in town.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

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

Eastern Altadena remains much whiter and more affluent than those neighborhoods to the west, according to U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

There was a circlet of whiter skin on his third finger where he used to wear the signet ring that Katie had given him when they married.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

Before their eyes the tiny, lowly hut which had been their home for so long was turned into a stately pillared temple of whitest marble with a golden roof.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

The billboards had been whited out with thin coats of paint in order to write on them and through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements for goods which no longer existed.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

The fried whiting has my name on it.

From Washington Post Aug. 12, 2022

It said the fish were blue whiting, a rare species subject to quotas.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2022

"A pity it did not fall a bit to the left. You'd have saved me the trouble of whiting my face for today's performance."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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