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hairy

[hair-ee] / ˈhɛər i /




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It looks like a hairy alien from outer space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"You can kind of picture them like hairy particles," said Moore.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

As the Washington Post reported before the hearing, Mullin has never served in the military, but he has often told stories alluding to being in hairy situations “overseas” while on “special assignments.”

From Slate Mar. 18, 2026

Mason says she has a "particularly hairy part" of her wrist where she applies her testosterone gel on a daily basis, but that the benefits she gets from the hormone are worth it.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

The little hairy man wiggled his own large, hairy ears, dismissively.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

Then the adults themselves noticed that their noses were getting bigger and that they were growing hairier.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

“It was the hairiest thing we’ve ever done because it was so chaotic and impossible to plan. And when I pulled those seconds out, the sequence flew. It was brutal to have to do it.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2023

She said I was the hairiest thing she had ever seen.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2021

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

“This will be — probably — your hairiest caucus of all time,” one of the show’s anchors cracked wise to the cartoonist.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2016

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




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