spiky
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The fall 2026 collection from Georgian brand Lado Bokuchava is a silver grommet fantasia, and Hodakova has been making elegantly articulated spiky clothing for a number of seasons now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"He knows quite a lot of the plants and when he had a friend round a little while ago, he did a danger tour of all the poisonous or spiky plants," Gemma said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The researchers compare the shape to the spiky burrs that cling stubbornly to shoes and clothing outdoors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
“SNL” is no stranger to spiky sketch comedy takes on motherhood: remember “Mom Jeans?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
Its brass fittings were spiky with green rust, but it moved fast through the dark water.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
So much of his spikier music deserves attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
I do know it has a "fun mode", for spikier responses - was it messing with me?
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
Act 2, “Visitor From Hollywood,” is a spikier, shorter segue into satire.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Her self-titled debut, due in the spring, mingles the spikier and softer sides of her catalogue.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
So maybe Petey was a little spikier during the day.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Shirley, director Josephine Decker’s new film about a few months in the life of the writer Shirley Jackson, aims to resemble a Shirley Jackson story of the very spikiest variety.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020
But with “Jessica Jones,” which returns March 8 for a second season, she is able to let the spikiest elements of her imagination run amok.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
