sheer
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That time came when he was shopping around his screenplay about an underdog boxer, Rocky Balboa, who through sheer, immiserating grit enters the ring against the champion fighter Apollo Creed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Dr. McGowan said: "It's sheer luck we chose this protist to test our sequencing pipeline, and it just shows what's out there, highlighting just how little we know about the genetics of protists."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
You’d come down in the morning, and just that sheer amount of nature every day I found really moving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The problem, say staff, is the pressure they are under - from the sheer number of people in Accident and Emergency to the complexity of many of the patients in hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To make matters worse, the path broke off entirely and sheer cliffs loomed ahead of them.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
What kept these lipsticks from looking dated is that they tended to be stains, not thick creams or dry mattes, with a sheerer, lighter texture than one would traditionally associate with such intense hues.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2013
So he had a sheerer version tested and sold it in drugstores under the brand names Chez La Femme and Silky Legs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011
Once I got the hang of twisting it just a little, then I got sheerer coverage, but it seemed difficult to do it right.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2010
WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore his signature royal blue robe, but as Rowan got closer, he could see it was a sheerer variation than the one he had worn at conclave.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world’s biggest, sheerest rock walls.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Some will dismiss the concept as sheerest fantasy, or see in Raymond Shaw just a nuclear-age version of that older, less complicated Frankenstein’s monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Into the deepest crevices, the darkest caves and the sheerest drops of our beings.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019
But it would be sheerest hubris to assume those are the only concerns.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2017
Kate’s hands were always busy, mostly at drawn work on the sheerest of lawn handkerchiefs.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The interior is properly decorated — flowered curtains, gauzy sheers, a hanging crystal light fixture — while a fan on the floor disturbs the peace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris, Ella Emhoff, helped the designer showcase his line of soft sheers coupled next to metallics and liquid-like gloves and leggings.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2022
The skirt of the season is made in three tiers, like confections, mixing up leather, knits, velvet and sheers, sometimes adorned with sequins and rhinestones.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
First, though, dust your shades, sheers and curtains by patting them with your hands.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021
Suddenly a loud splashing was heard down the shore not many rods distant, and the guide sheers off so as to approach the forest denizen from the side.
From Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life by Burt Jones
Several news outlets showed video of a light blue Ferrari 812 Superfast with one of its wheels and side bumpers sheered off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Hair sheered from victims to make cloth is considered a sacred human remain which cannot be photographed and is not subjected to conservation efforts.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
A bed complete with its patterned sheet and pillow visible inside a room whose outside wall had been sheered clean away showed the scale of the task ahead.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
Troops marching over it inadvertently hit its "resonant frequency", setting up such a strong vibration the bolts sheered.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2014
Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important: and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
All of this sheering is a symptom of just how much fast fashion has reshaped our wardrobes.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024
In any case, I would prefer not to deal with such questions, because it will turn out the same as sheering a pig – lots of squealing, little wool.”
From Time ● Jun. 25, 2013
It’s not what most highlanders have in mind: “We want to make the final products,” says Delfina Apaza, rubbing her hands after hours of manual sheering.
From Time ● Dec. 30, 2012
Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oddly enough the other horse seemed also to be sheering away to the left, so that in a few seconds the space between them had widened a good deal.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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