itchy
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A mosquito researcher offers tips and tricks to avoid leaving the trail with itchy red bumps from our local bloodsuckers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"A mouse can't say that it's itchy," Duan said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Scabies is an itchy rash caused by mites and should be treated quickly to stop it spreading.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
For several weeks, I had an itchy bump on the back of my scalp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I am itchy to get out and find Ronan, but Grammy won’t let me go.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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The researchers surmised that increased levels of CO2 in coming decades would lead to bigger, faster growing, and itchier poison ivy plants.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2021
A year into the shutdown, one’s finger on the keyboard pause button gets itchier by the day.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2021
I usually get a contact rash when I’m near smokers and it gets on my clothes, so I have to shower immediately upon returning home before the rash gets itchier.
From Slate ● May 4, 2020
Still, this paragraph made me feel itchier than the rest.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
The white stockings are new though, and even itchier than the brown ones I wear to school.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Musk had the biggest wallet, and the itchiest tweeting finger, and the widest eyes.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2022
As a result, investors are equipped with the itchiest trigger fingers ever in one of the touchiest periods in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2012
Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“I’m itchy all over. I’m the itchiest in the world.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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