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There is also a $29.99 mushroom pasta sauce with white truffle flavoring.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
The attacks escalated this summer, with 16 trees — 13 Jeffrey pines and three white firs — poisoned on three occasions between May and early August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The imposing, stylish set is a two-story white house built to scale by designer Saul Kim, with glass walls facing the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They soon became suspicious of 10 white plastic funnels peeping out from behind the trunk.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But her kindness shone in the little room as brightly as the gleaming white tiles and shiny faucets.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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"Today I see a boom in Ukrainian wineries," he said, noting that from full-bodied reds in the south to the crisp whites of the west, "our terroirs and climate are incredibly diverse".
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
While Tayane Dalazen was bitten by a nurse shark - known as a more docile species - some influencers have been filmed touching tiger sharks and even great whites.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I just make egg whites at the house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Straight-backed, prim Mary set up a modest but respectable home near the city center, a part of town where blacks and whites lived peaceably together.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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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
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
The beam is whiter, more focused and brighter than the more diffuse light from halogen lamps fitted in older cars.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Amaka wore the same bright red lipstick as her mother; it made her teeth seem whiter when she smiled and said, “Merry Christmas.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
Felice Upton, assistant secretary for Juvenile Rehabilitation, puts it bluntly: “I want them to have whatever the richest, whitest kids get.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
But as a Korean adoptee growing up in Vermont, one of the whitest states in America, I wasn't eager to make myself come across as any more Asian than I already was.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2023
He had the whitest teeth that I had ever seen, and he was shirtless all the time.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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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
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
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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
On Tuesday, the city of Bordeaux announced that an art student with no racist motive was behind the whiting of the statue, whose head, arms and shawl were covered in plaster.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Cod, whiting, haddock and mackerel, we caught them all and bore them back triumphantly to the hotel kitchen where the cheery fat woman who did the cooking promised to get them ready for our supper.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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