white
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A wall of white granite towered above a small team of engineers gathered in a California quarry.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And they enjoy considerably more support among white and upper-income Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents than among blacks, Hispanics and lower-income voters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now, the 6-year-old white pug has turned her life around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Prosecutors allege that Davis acquired a gun and organised two vehicles to travel to a Las Vegas club, one of them a white Cadillac, which carried three other men, including his nephew, Anderson.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Giant hydrangeas lean over, unable to hold high their giant blooms of pink, white, and lavender — now even heavier with the morning dew — from filling the spaces lining the path.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
While Fuchs' first senior managerial role saw him win just nine of 31 matches in charge of the Exiles, he got off to a victorious start in cricket whites.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Southern whites, Woodward explains, strongly believed that a new system of racial control was clearly required, but it was not immediately obvious what form it should take.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
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
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
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
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
While the paint is officially the world’s whitest, it isn’t blindingly so because it scatters light, Ruan said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
The whitest white man I ever saw beckons us, his blue-veined hands shaky, his false teeth overly large in his mouth.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
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
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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