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striate

[strahy-ayt, strahy-it, -ayt] / ˈstraɪ eɪt, ˈstraɪ ɪt, -eɪt /


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It’s about contemporary Italy, which is also to say that it’s about the divisions of class, region, sex, nationality and ideology that striate the peninsula.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Volume loss affected the gyri, subcortical perisylvian area, insula, and part of the striate nucleus.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

As soon as you start to stir the pot, add in people of different socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, or value systems, the myth of a totally open, flat and transparent organization starts to striate.

From Forbes ● Sep. 12, 2013

Thallus 2–6´ long, ½–¾´ wide; receptacle conic, striate, crenate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

P. 2-3 cm. almost membranaceous, conico-convex then exp., tuberculose striate to the middle, purplish livid then yellowish, disc brown; g. pale yellow, naked; s. 2-3 cm. yellowish white, soon hollow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Soon after the start of the Civil War, Church turned the atmospheric effects of a rising sun, striated clouds, and stars peeking through a patch of sky into a tattered Union flag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Now, researchers in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering report that the non-allergenic wheat protein glutenin successfully grew striated muscle layers and flat fat layers, which could be combined to produce meat-like textures.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a threesided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

“I just don’t like this striating of our culture,” she said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016

It is found striating white sandstone about Tákwá and other places in the interior.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

His conclusion was that the advocates of the Iceberg theory had formed "too extravagant notions regarding the potency of floating ice as a striating agent."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin




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