stubble
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Vehicles account for 23 percent of Delhi's winter pollution, while biomass burning, including farm stubble fires, contributes 20 percent, according to India's environment ministry.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
It wasn’t ideology that made me want to claw the stubble off my own face.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
The 54-year-old comedian with a beard full of gray stubble drops back to pass, launching a tight spiral underneath SoFi’s massive technicolor halo scoreboard hovering above a sea of empty stands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
His nose was flat and a half-inch scar beneath his lower lip stood out white beneath the dark stubble.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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