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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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“The white neighbors moved so fast I never met them,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

“Like the look of the great white shark.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

I look over at the white door, no more than a few yards away.

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

Too many flat whites and you'll not only be short of cash - you could also develop a sleep problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

By 1945, a growing number of whites in the North had concluded that the Jim Crow system would have to be modified, if not entirely overthrown.

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

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

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

Fifty years later he wore the same thick glasses, I’d never seen a whiter shirt, he had a hard time letting go of books, I went up to him.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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

While the paint is officially the world’s whitest, it isn’t blindingly so because it scatters light, Ruan said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Katherine sits inside, fiddling with a pair of the whitest gloves I’ve ever seen.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

The fried whiting has my name on it.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022

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 burned with something else, whiting out the setting around them.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi


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