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[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University historian who writes about white evangelicals and gender, was not surprised.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Tarling now wears the white fastest young rider's jersey on stage two, which is a 214.3km hilly race to Manosque in Provence.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

The winner of the recent Mexico City edition was a fresh-faced Kaled Rosales Salazar, who mimicked lassoing and leading his opponent, Quintana, like a horse, with a giant white sandal as a prop.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

The painting portrays a moment in an ancient Cretan myth recounted in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”: Zeus descends to Earth, transforms himself into a white bull and lolls among the herds belonging to the Phoenician king.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

I could not see Father’s face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

I just make egg whites at the house.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“As a result of that, there were a lot of whites who didn’t like that—at all.”

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Bake until the whites are set and the yolks are cooked to your liking.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

If you think of the Williams sisters you see them in the Wimbledon whites, moving around a grass court, two beautiful service motions, with athleticism, power, and touch at the net to boot.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

At once, Boaz’s eyes rolled back, with only the whites visible, and the fluorescents began to flicker.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.

From Salon Apr. 4, 2026

After 12 hours, they were nearly 50% whiter than similar teeth brushed with a saline solution.

From Science Daily Mar. 23, 2026

A banner ad for a bottle of Tide’s laundry detergent most recently spotted by Yoder blasted out the message: “Boosted: Cleaner, whiter, brighter, fresher.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

TRL's data suggests that LED and whiter headlamps may be linked to glare and that drivers might find their whiteness harder to cope with.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2025

Every movement of the boat jarred him, and each time he moved, he grew whiter and whiter.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It is the whitest, wealthiest and best-educated of Arizona’s nine congressional districts, home to numerous upscale resorts, major medical campuses and a large population of retirees comfortably settled in one of many gated communities.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2026

The whitest layer the furthest away from the ground is regarded as safer to consume.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2024

This innovation was derived from the intricate biological structure of Cyphochilus, the whitest known beetle.

From Science Daily Jan. 3, 2024

Felice Upton, assistant secretary for Juvenile Rehabilitation, puts it bluntly: “I want them to have whatever the richest, whitest kids get.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

We always feel when something's been whited out because someone didn't understand or translate the culture.

From Salon Apr. 3, 2022

Photos show the reference was first whited out, then a laminated description without the sentence was taped over the original placard.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2020

Sometimes he whited them out completely with gouache.

From New York Times Dec. 17, 2019

The 295-page tranche that went out last night is quite repetitive, and the interviews are still mostly whited out.

From Washington Post Dec. 3, 2019

Sunday morning, in a Vermont town, my last day in New England, I shaved, dressed in a suit, polished my shoes, whited my sepulcher, and looked for a church to attend.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

The species that are most frequently parasitised include salmon, tuna, squid, cod, hake, mackerel, mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting, sardines and anchovies.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2023

There are mixed ratings for Celtic Sea haddock, cod and whiting, with warnings that the populations of cod and whiting caught there are at dangerously low levels.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2022

Along with the Starbound, Trident, in a sale expected to close this month, will acquire two smaller trawl boats, the F/V Ocean Harvester and the F/V Muir Milach, that also harvest pollock and whiting.

From Seattle Times Dec. 12, 2021

Sometimes we go all out and send TJ to get whiting from the Portuguese fish market in the Ironbound.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles




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