bushy
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"Here we have two hominin species that are together. And human evolution is not linear, it's a bushy tree, there are life forms that go extinct."
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
The once-famous dark mane has gone white and is neatly cropped and the bushy mustache is now just a brush of hair below his nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
AI always seemed intent on giving her bushy eyebrows and slight bags under her eyes, to the surprise of select audiences at industry events who saw early snippets of Tilly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
Lifting herself over the gutter with a neat flick of her bushy tail, Jess clattered across to a small slate side roof.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The island tree is shorter and bushier, its bark thicker and its cones rounder than the mainland tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
If they survive, those same trees will be bushier and healthier the following year.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
In her presentation, Hurd showed a neon green–and–yellow neuron with sparse, stunted branches next to its much bushier normal counterpart.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 31, 2023
I wiggle, examining his wrinkle-free forehead and bushy eyebrows bound to grow bushier in old age, until my awkwardness turns to calm.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
“How are you doing that?” demanded Hermione, who was red-faced and whose hair was growing bushier and bushier in the fumes from her cauldron; her potion was still resolutely purple.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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But Kimbrel, the Red Sox closer, and Turner, the Dodgers’ third baseman, now seem to be competing for the unofficial title of bushiest, scraggliest, most unkempt beard in sports.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
I’d plant more hydrangeas, but it has some of the bushiest jasmine I’ve yet seen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2016
I’d written three features before I’d arrived, but they were the bushiest of the bush league.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2013
He spent his wages on flying lessons and became a bush pilot in Alaska, the state with the bushiest piloting of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But what would you say, if one fine day, When they've got their bushiest tails, Their grown up game should be just the same, And she have to follow their trails?
From At the Back of the North Wind by MacDonald, George