hairy
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If you happen to be swimming in the Salish Sea at night and imagine tiny hairy legs creeping up your body, there is now at least one unsettling reason that image feels plausible.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
“It’s so funny because it’s like these people have maybe never seen a woman in a bathing suit with hairy legs,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
One win and two defeats is what most people should have expected, albeit the win was hairy and unimpressive.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
"You can kind of picture them like hairy particles," said Moore.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
The wolf placed its huge, hairy paws on Penelope’s shoulders.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Bumblebees have much hairier bodies than honeybees, making it easier for dust and airborne particles containing heavy metals to cling to them before being carried back to the nest with pollen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Things got even hairier when Usha’s execrable husband, Vice President J.D.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
The two subspecies look quite similar, but the northern version has subtle physical differences, including hairier ears and feet that are better suited to its swampy habitat.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024
We pass photos on the hallway wall of a short boy covered in hair from head to toe, smiling with a man who’s much taller and hairier than he is.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
The writer-directors are themselves a real-life couple who adopted a child, so ostensibly we’re getting an exaggeratedly autobiographical peek into what self-preservation on the cusp of dadhood looks like at its off-the-charts hairiest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
She said I was the hairiest thing she had ever seen.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
On Monday night, the loudest cheers were often reserved for the fluffiest, the hairiest and the cutest of the breed winners.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
A lumbering, chunky beast clad in a sheep-like coat of hair, it is the hairiest and fattiest of pigs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
Malik has the hairiest toes, and for the last few weeks, his right big toenail has been all black and blue and yellow because he jammed it doing a backflip.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
