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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

It's sweltering outside, but I'm wearing a woolly hat, gloves and thermal suit, as I'm about to head inside one of the UK's biggest cold storage facilities.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

But even if we’re meant to view our woolly antagonists as sheeple, after a fashion, “The Sheep Detectives” culminates on an optimistic note for both the four-legged and the two.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Sora transfixed the tech world by creating seemingly realistic videos of everything from woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy field to a stylish woman walking down a Tokyo street filled with glowing neon signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

It was a woolly monkey, also known as a barrigudo.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

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

People who had raised money would often send letters and gifts to the crew, and as this account notes, the "ladies in Tottenham knitted woollies for the crew of their adopted ship".

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2010

Timesman Frank Kluckholn, guessing that an invasion of Norway and an offensive against the Germans in north Russia was in the offing, outfitted himself with woollies and a heavy overcoat.

From Time Magazine Archive

During this bombardment we went on distributing our woollies all along the line, and I thought my head would split at any moment, the noise was so great.

From Fanny Goes to War by Washington, Pat Beauchamp

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

In Pixar’s “Monsters University,” they aren’t made of slugs, snails and puppy dog tails — they’re monstrous versions of those ingredients, only cuter, fuzzier, brighter, wilder and woollier.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2013

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

Among the woollier samples: Q. How do you make an elephant float?

From Time Magazine Archive

The woolly plush hat shows no change either, except that if anything it is slightly woollier in the Alps than among us.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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

At no event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Because in the interim, it has become clear to even the woolliest that nuclear weapons are not the threat.

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 Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon)