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[ver-ee] / ˈvɛr i /




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"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Even so, he is optimistic about Mr. Sununu’s chances: “I think it’s a very close race.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Giamanco's mother told the local Fox affiliate she was "very proud" and that her son was "an absolute hero."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The climate of fear was very much alive. It was a community in trauma.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"You make me very proud. You are capable of being a good governor, not of one but of many islands."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Is there a verier child than I am now?

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.

From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives

How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?

From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only the most blandly vacuous and the veriest tyros of the theatre can regard Cock o' the Roost favorably.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the creature looked the veriest scarecrow that ever hung about a church-porch.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman


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