bushy
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"Here we have two hominin species that are together. And human evolution is not linear, it's a bushy tree, there are life forms that go extinct."
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
VILSECK, Germany—A line of tattooed, beefed-up men with bushy beards and American accents formed at the bakery in this tiny Bavarian town on a recent May morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Known for their reddish coat and white-tipped bushy tail, they are found across Europe, Asia, North America, and parts of Africa.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
I think they’re kind of cute, but Mama says squirrels are just rats with bushy tails.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
The island tree is shorter and bushier, its bark thicker and its cones rounder than the mainland tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
If they survive, those same trees will be bushier and healthier the following year.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
At least in principle, the bird family tree could get even bushier.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2024
I wiggle, examining his wrinkle-free forehead and bushy eyebrows bound to grow bushier in old age, until my awkwardness turns to calm.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Still curly, but the curls were larger and bushier and hung past her shoulders.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
But Kimbrel, the Red Sox closer, and Turner, the Dodgers’ third baseman, now seem to be competing for the unofficial title of bushiest, scraggliest, most unkempt beard in sports.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
I’d plant more hydrangeas, but it has some of the bushiest jasmine I’ve yet seen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2016
I’d written three features before I’d arrived, but they were the bushiest of the bush league.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2013
He felt and looked like a fighter pilot; he had grown the bushiest, sharpest-pointed fighter-pilot mustache in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a tall, fine young man enough, with black hair, which grew very long, and the biggest, bushiest pair of black whiskers I ever saw.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
