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etiolated









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A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2024

However, when succulents become etiolated, they can only grow thicker new growth once sunlight is corrected.

From Seattle Times Aug. 30, 2022

And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2022

To me, though, “Romance in Marseille” reflects the 1930s discovery and celebration of outcasts, rogues and criminals, all of them regarded as more vital and passionate than the upright citizens of etiolated bourgeois society.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2020

Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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