bushy
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Then, as the waves were still pounding, a fire broke out in the city’s bushy foothills Friday, quickly burning toward hillside neighborhoods and destroying homes in nearby San Juan Capistrano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"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
Known for their reddish coat and white-tipped bushy tail, they are found across Europe, Asia, North America, and parts of Africa.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Murayama, who was also well-known for his distinctive bushy eyebrows, was elected as the prime minister in a coalition government that also included the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's dominant postwar political force.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
They were all advancing on a tiny circular fox with huge eyes and a bushy tail curled around itself.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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 felt and looked like a fighter pilot; he had grown the bushiest, sharpest-pointed fighter-pilot mustache in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was a strange, odd looking old gentleman, erect as a picket, scrupulously dressed, and looking at her with fierce grey eyes from under the bushiest lashes.
From Six Girls A Home Story by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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