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sooty

[soot-ee, soo-tee] / ˈsʊt i, ˈsu ti /


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Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

He said that in New Zealand sooty shearwater, also known as muttonbirds, were traditionally hunted on Rakiura, which is also known as Stewart Island.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Malick Diop grew up in Senegal in a thatched-roof hut with a dirt floor, sooty walls and roaming goats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, typing to you from underneath a sooty, icy snow boulder that has covered the entirety of D.C. for a week.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

City snowplows thunder through the streets as the white snow gets piled up and sooty, until nothing is pristine.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

However, reality wears a graver face and a sootier one.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan

A Santa Claus that had any bowels of compassion would rush down the narrowest and sootiest chimney in the world to give me my simple wishes.

From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

She was small, not more than fifteen hundred or two thousand tons, and the dingiest, sootiest of all tramp freighters.

From Harrigan by Max Brand

He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he?

From Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines by Kirk Monroe




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