hairy
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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
Mangalitsa-cross pigs are related to the hairy Hungarian breed, developed in the 1830s, that mixed eastern European domestic breeds with the wild boar.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"You can kind of picture them like hairy particles," said Moore.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
She yelped as black liquid oozed from the open wound and a hairy white spider crept out and skittered away.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
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
“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
