white
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Prosecutors said the bag also contained two white envelopes stuffed with $15,000 in cash — the remainder of Meiser’s payment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The simulations then followed the stars through their later evolutionary stages and into their final state as white dwarfs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The results suggest that magnetic fields could fundamentally alter how massive a white dwarf can become.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Some well-studied white dwarfs have unexpectedly large radii for their relatively low masses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 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
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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
In 2000-19, the prison-admission rate for violent crime dropped 20% for whites, 43% for blacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some whites were directly harmed by Jim Crow.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
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
There was mist across Marsh Creek, ever whiter in the growing light.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
His suit was made of the whitest cloth she had ever seen.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
Omakayas remembered the tiny whited pit in the skin of her grandmother’s cheek, but was still surprised to hear that Nokomis, too, had suffered the disease.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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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
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
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
This woman’s got a plate of grits with fried whiting, biscuits in white gravy, three thick slices of beef bacon, and a side of candied yams with marshmallows and raisins.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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