curly
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She recalled Pike being very well put together, with similar curly hair to her own, and she felt their small similarities gave them common ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
I was more stressed than usual before my meditation session, because the researchers had instructed me to avoid coffee and hair gel—directions I found problematic for both my reporting focus and my curly hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Jones was intrigued by Pints and Ponytails as he’s battled the hair-care needs of his 2 ½-year-old daughter, Noa, and her textured, curly locks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
After her cancer went into remission, she wanted to restore her long curly hair and began taking biotin supplements after reading about them online.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
Dark brown arms form, then legs and a torso, a chest, a neck, and a head of curly hair.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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The researchers found that the animals had longer, curlier hair, but no evidence that the mammoth's fat-increasing gene had an effect.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
The less evenly distributed the squiggly proteins are, the curlier the hair.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
And last year, the International Swimming Federation approved the Soul Cap, which accommodates thicker, curlier hair, for use in major competitions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
“It’s curlier and frizzier and I love it,” Kouatchou said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2021
But then her little-girl curls flattened out while mine got curlier, and her features sharpened, turning her face beautiful instead of just cute.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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I don’t recall which of my appeals drew Todbaum’s curliest scorn, only that it got pretty curly.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Big nose and big ears and the curliest hair at the fair.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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He was simply the curliest darling, clad in a garment of many colors made of strange remnants and sewed by hands doubtless acquainted with a sailor's palm but unfamiliar with ordinary stitching.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
Altogether, this was the curliest family of lions ever seen, and Daddy Leo appeared to be the funniest curly-headed and curly-bodied lion ever seen.
From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
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