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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

When you’re talking about this printer, there is no black and white.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Europa, lying on the white bull’s back, is sensuous, vulnerable, her gaze frozen in a moment of fear and alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

They came in small groups, some under military escort, blue and white Israeli flags fluttering from their cars as they passed Palestinian villages and farmlands.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Clare saw himself as a young kit, scared and alone and barely understanding the white fox who’d appeared from the shadows.

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

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

Children born to black Africans in America have earnings similar to those of whites in this country, and this phenomenon is led by second-generation women.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Bake for another 7 to 10 minutes, until the egg whites are set and the yolks are cooked to your liking.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

If you think of the Williams sisters you see them in the Wimbledon whites, moving around a grass court, two beautiful service motions, with athleticism, power, and touch at the net to boot.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Whether he could conjure up a vision of blacks and whites living together in harmony at some unspecified time in the future remains unclear.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

His face was not a good face; it was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal’s.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

We made sure Patch had the softest whitest bits we could find.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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 images by the group Sea Shepherd show a blanket of dead blue whiting fish floating on the surface of the Bay of Biscay, off the coast of southwest France.

From Seattle Times Feb. 5, 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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