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also wooly
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as in hairy
covered with or as if with hair
still had a water bed and a woolly coverlet on top of it
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Recent Examples of woolly
As part of the bizarre tradition on the island of Borkum, Lower Saxony, six men dress up as monsters in woolly costumes to hunt the women, before holding them and subjecting them to the bull horn beatings.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Then, in August 2024, gold miners found a woolly rhinoceros that still had a horn attached to its body, per the Smithsonian Magazine.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
This is the most famous folklore predictor and there are many sayings about woolly worms.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Some believe the 13 segments or bands of the woolly worm represent the 13 weeks of winter.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Then, in August 2024, gold miners found a woolly rhinoceros that still had a horn attached to its body, per the Smithsonian Magazine.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
This is the most famous folklore predictor and there are many sayings about woolly worms.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Some believe the 13 segments or bands of the woolly worm represent the 13 weeks of winter.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woolly
Adjective
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The lab mice, which have been modified to have shaggy fur and golden coats, are a demonstration of the kind of gene edits that the company hopes to perform on a much larger scale, modifying Asian elephants to more closely resemble their woolly mammoth ancestors.—
Matt Reynolds,
WIRED,
4 Mar. 2025
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It was filled with spare, ’60s shapes and saturated colors and included a trenchcoat done in aubergine, bordeaux and beige, shaggy bouclé coats and soft hobo bags.—
WWD,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Flying your favorite spacecraft is as simple as plopping down in the captain’s chair to engage in some hairy dogfights and clandestine patrols over strange worlds or the inky cosmic blackness as the gameplay shifts from a standard FPS to a third-person perspective.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Then with 1:34 left in regulation, things got really hairy when Koepke was called for a high-sticking double minor on Rakell.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What makes these plants unattractive to deer—prickly or hairy stems or leaves, a pungent scent, or a covering of fuzzy hairs—is a win for your garden, adding charm to your landscape.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Mar. 2025
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Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The ladybug begins life as a spiky black crawler; the garden tiger moth starts out life as an extravagantly furred caterpillar.—
Rivka Galchen,
The New Yorker,
31 Aug. 2023
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Many furred mammals have apocrine glands, including camels and donkeys, as well as chimpanzees.—
Jeff Goodell,
Time,
6 July 2023
Adjective
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The Trump administration has expressed interest in other minerals like lithium, graphite, and titanium, but these are based on rough mineral estimates.—
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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While New York City as a whole is safer than most other metropolises, pockets of especially rough neighborhoods are unsafe, particularly for young men.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Woolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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