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hairy

[hair-ee] / ˈhɛər i /




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"Go!" shouted Ivan Deforge, and without hesitation his 300-kilo hairy sidekicks Karym and Ural leapt through a ring of fire under the dome of the Great Moscow Circus.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified two previously unknown species of sea spider, including one with hairy legs and striking red eyes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

He had been driving by and stopped to help, like a big, hairy angel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Fadi felt like a hairy single-celled paramecium, immobilized under a microscope, squashed between two plates of glass.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

But, like in the real world, when the human stakes rise to a level where movie ethics are a smaller concern because actual life is on the line, things get hairier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

To them, the hairier the situation became, the more exciting it was.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

They include experienced operators who can solve any problem, supervisors who can get a struggling shift back on track, production assistants who can sort out the hairiest schedule, and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“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

“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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