woolly

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You'll likely know them by now, tucked away in the Arctic fjords, where the winds sweep down off snow-capped mountains and fans wear jumpers as woolly as their scarves.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Mr. Ellis’s music can generally be described as woolly folk-rock mixed with a few jazzy inflections.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

But as the climate warmed, the woolly mammoths gradually vanished, with the last small herds surviving on remote Arctic islands until just 4,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025

The nurse made to give Olanna the baby, wrapped in a white woolly blanket, but she gestured to Odenigbo.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie