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View definitions for whisker

whisker

noun as in facial hair

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noun as in slight or narrow amount

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“That’s how they greet,” Ebsen told me a few weeks before, “their whiskers send signals straight up to their brain which tells them all about your smell, your hormones, everything.”

In the 16th century, California came within a Tudor whisker of being a queen’s land: Elizabeth I.

Celtic won, by a whisker or by a mile, it doesn't really matter.

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By distinguishing between each creature’s whisker tips, as well as their base and length, she hopes AI will enable wildlife experts to track and monitor individual members of the population.

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A lifelong personal zeal for Scottish independence energised his mission to shift his cause from a sidebar to the mainstream, and to within a whisker of it actually happening.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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