spiky
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Yoshida, the Coike’s creator, writes in an email that he designed the spiky lure two decades ago to resemble a “cluster of small fish,” or what anglers call a “bait ball.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Maybe the only way to justify a magnetic attraction to wanting my bags, shoes and belts to be studded, spiky, pierced and heavy is by connecting the dots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The researchers compare the shape to the spiky burrs that cling stubbornly to shoes and clothing outdoors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
While there were spiky moments between Topuria and Gaethje, there was little said between France's Ciryl Gane and Brazil's Alex Pereira, who will fight for the interim heavyweight title in the co-main event.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
I have an impression of a too-big black shirt, jeans, a chain wallet, spiky hair.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
But in its thumbnail sketches simmering with risk, humor, and melancholy, illuminating a world of worsening disparities but spikier solidarity, it entertainingly takes stock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Act 2, “Visitor From Hollywood,” is a spikier, shorter segue into satire.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Two: Can it tolerate paradoxes and complexity, the spikier stuff that distinguishes real-life sinners from comic-book villains?
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
The UK's version - originally the spikier "Brixit" in a 2012 piece in the Economist - used to come adorned with inverted commas, reflecting that it referred to a thought experiment or imaginary future.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2017
So maybe Petey was a little spikier during the day.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Shirley, director Josephine Decker’s new film about a few months in the life of the writer Shirley Jackson, aims to resemble a Shirley Jackson story of the very spikiest variety.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020
But with “Jessica Jones,” which returns March 8 for a second season, she is able to let the spikiest elements of her imagination run amok.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
