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striate

[strahy-eyt, strahy-it, -eyt] / ˈstraɪ eɪt, ˈstraɪ ɪt, -eɪt /


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It’s about contemporary Italy, which is also to say that it’s about the divisions of class, region, sex, nationality and ideology that striate the peninsula.

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2022

Volume loss affected the gyri, subcortical perisylvian area, insula, and part of the striate nucleus.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

As soon as you start to stir the pot, add in people of different socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or value systems, the myth of a totally open, flat and transparent organization starts to striate.

From Forbes Sep. 12, 2013

Stem-leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, or rarely undivided, slightly toothed with soft spiny teeth, clasping by a heart-shaped base, the auricles acute; involucre downy when young; achenes striate, also wrinkled transversely.—Waste places in manured soil and around dwellings.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Calyx cylindrical, nerved or striate, 5-toothed, subtended by 2 or more imbricated bractlets.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Soon after the start of the Civil War, Church turned the atmospheric effects of a rising sun, striated clouds, and stars peeking through a patch of sky into a tattered Union flag.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2025

Visitors come to explore the Taroko Gorge, a striated marble canyon carved by the Liwu River, which cuts through mountains that rise steeply from the coast.

From New York Times Apr. 3, 2024

They're calling that large, striated blob Baby Cas A -- because it appears like an offspring of the main supernova.

From Science Daily Dec. 12, 2023

Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a threesided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

“I just don’t like this striating of our culture,” she said.

From New York Times Nov. 13, 2016

His conclusion was that the advocates of the Iceberg theory had formed "too extravagant notions regarding the potency of floating ice as a striating agent."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

It is found striating white sandstone about Tákwá and other places in the interior.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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