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white

[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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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

"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

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

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

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

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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