white
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According to ABC7, a white pickup truck was spotted with bullet holes in the windshield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
An urgent investigation has been launched by Nigeria's environmental agency after a strange white foamy substance appeared on a major highway, sparking a public spectacle and raising safety concerns.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Of course, today most Greek and Italian Americans view themselves, and are largely viewed by others, as white.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The song hit number one on the UK charts in 1974 when the band, known for its uniform of white suits, performed on Top of the Pops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Harry reached down to pet the little white and brown, beagle-y-eared-looking dog that’d come up to sniff her leg.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Bake until the whites are set and the yolks are cooked to your liking.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
In other words, finding a young shark could suggest that great whites are not simply passing through Mediterranean waters.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Naylor suspects that younger great whites are more likely to mistakenly bite humans as they start to mature and focus on new prey like seals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
By the time I got through all the clothes and the last of the whites were rinsed and wrung, my hands were raw and my back was grumbling something fierce.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
A banner ad for a bottle of Tide’s laundry detergent most recently spotted by Yoder blasted out the message: “Boosted: Cleaner, whiter, brighter, fresher.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
She’d put on some bright orange lipstick and this made her face look whiter than usual and the skin between her eyelashes and eyebrows look bruised.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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
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
It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
It said the fish were blue whiting, a rare species subject to quotas.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
Along with the Starbound, Trident, in a sale expected to close this month, will acquire two smaller trawl boats, the F/V Ocean Harvester and the F/V Muir Milach, that also harvest pollock and whiting.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2021
Sometimes we go all out and send TJ to get whiting from the Portuguese fish market in the Ironbound.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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