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[hwahyt, wahyt] / ʰwaɪt, waɪt /


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I’ve never had white fish salad that’s better than what they had at Solley’s, but Art’s Deli is good, too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Six workers in Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres in New York were exposed to white powder found in a letter on Friday, CBS News reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Solid white regions represent areas with the greatest ice coverage, while dark blue indicates open ocean.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Tuesday, an employee at the Louisiana secretary of state’s office in Baton Rouge was taken to the emergency room as a precaution after opening a letter containing white powder, a spokesperson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

They unsheathed their fangs, flashing the stark white tissue of their mouths.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Too many flat whites and you'll not only be short of cash - you could also develop a sleep problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The prison admission rate for violent offenses declined 20% among whites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

At a trendy wine bar in Kyiv, locals pop by to sip Zakarpattia whites or get a bottle of wine into the late summer evening.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

In some cases, blacks have forged alliances with whites and Latinos to elect black mayors, senators, and congressmen.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

After 12 hours, they were nearly 50% whiter than similar teeth brushed with a saline solution.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026

Now 74, with a white beard and whiter turban, Ravinder is facing the possibility that he might be the last in that line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

The beam is whiter, more focused and brighter than the more diffuse light from halogen lamps fitted in older cars.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

It snowed all that week, ending a white November and beginning a whiter December.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

It is the whitest, wealthiest and best-educated of Arizona’s nine congressional districts, home to numerous upscale resorts, major medical campuses and a large population of retirees comfortably settled in one of many gated communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

The whitest layer the furthest away from the ground is regarded as safer to consume.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2024

This innovation was derived from the intricate biological structure of Cyphochilus, the whitest known beetle.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

Typically, the top layer, which is the whitest, is used as table salt.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

His teeth were so white, the whitest I had ever seen.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

We always feel when something's been whited out because someone didn't understand or translate the culture.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

Photos show the reference was first whited out, then a laminated description without the sentence was taped over the original placard.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020

Sometimes he whited them out completely with gouache.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019

Everything is whited out at first, as if I’ve taken off my sunglasses on a glaringly bright day.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018

Sunday morning, in a Vermont town, my last day in New England, I shaved, dressed in a suit, polished my shoes, whited my sepulcher, and looked for a church to attend.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The species that are most frequently parasitised include salmon, tuna, squid, cod, hake, mackerel, mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting, sardines and anchovies.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023

There are mixed ratings for Celtic Sea haddock, cod and whiting, with warnings that the populations of cod and whiting caught there are at dangerously low levels.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022

The mass of blue whiting, a subspecies of cod used in the manufacturing of fish fingers, fish oil and other products, covered a surface of nearly 32,300 square feet, the nonprofit said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022

Cod, whiting, haddock and mackerel, we caught them all and bore them back triumphantly to the hotel kitchen where the cheery fat woman who did the cooking promised to get them ready for our supper.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl


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