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On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

A life-sized pink woolly mammoth, Ozzy Osbourne, and an old phone are among some of the subjects comedian and artist Joe Lycett hopes will inspire others to get creative.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

The islands’ extreme deference to animals—many of which only exist here—was codified into law in 2022 in a landmark case involving a woolly monkey named Estrellita.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

She handed him a beige raincoat and a peculiar round black woolly hat.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

Locals in brown overalls, tweeds and woollies watch this enactment of merrie England, when armadas were seen off and men wore tights.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013

Easter marks the moment when shoppers' thoughts are supposed to switch from warming casseroles and winter woollies to barbecues, pelargoniums and garden projects.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013

The heating oil run-up spurs sales of wood and woollies, and budget worries Our Lady of Pity, a Roman Catholic church in North Cambridge, Mass., had never before seemed so aptly named.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mother has knitted countless woollies for you"—she changed the subject abruptly; "it has added to poor Tom's discontent.

From To Love by Margaret Peterson

Mr. Buck — who looks every bit the burl dealer, with his wool cap and even woollier beard — bought half a million pounds of redwood burls last year and is a presence on eBay.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014

By contrast, the BOA likes to speak of fourth in the medal table as an "aspiration", preferring instead to focus on the woollier goal of "more medals in more sports than for over a century".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

He often deploys the saxophones in a braided tandem, before giving each a chance to stretch out: Mr. Cheek with his streamlined logic, Mr. Malaby with his woollier line of attack.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2010

At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The performance goes on for an hour, growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep.

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

And amid some of the woolliest spring weather in recent memory — drought, sleet, hard freezes, heat waves — my new native plantings are clambering out of the wood chips.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2010

The woolliest: 6:45 every week night, when British youngsters gasp at the well-planned perils of Dick Barton, Special Agent, hero of BBC's only nonstop thriller.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were, as a matter of fact, excellent stockings of the heaviest, woolliest kind, and Whitman had bought them a year and a half ago in Scotland, whither he had gone after his wife's death.

From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis