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The rising cost may not be welcomed by shoppers seeking woolly socks and jumpers this winter, but it does mean farmers are more likely to cover the cost of shearing.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Gnawing, almost unbearable heartbreak acts as the catalyst for a layered analysis of the ways humans — or, in the case of “The Sheep Detectives,” humans and their woolly friends — ache to forget.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

When pressed he admitted that his argument had a woolly component.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

Bassett – an actress who grows in every play – shoves her face between dire woollies like a feral hedgehog.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2012

People who had raised money would often send letters and gifts to the crew, and as this account notes, the "ladies in Tottenham knitted woollies for the crew of their adopted ship".

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2010

The heating oil run-up spurs sales of wood and woollies, and budget worries Our Lady of Pity, a Roman Catholic church in North Cambridge, Mass., had never before seemed so aptly named.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is possible to get the cooties out of these garments much easier than out of the thick woollies.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

Upon beginning “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,” the sixth feature in the animation franchise that grows woollier by the movie, you sense something amiss.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

By contrast, the BOA likes to speak of fourth in the medal table as an "aspiration", preferring instead to focus on the woollier goal of "more medals in more sports than for over a century".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

He often deploys the saxophones in a braided tandem, before giving each a chance to stretch out: Mr. Cheek with his streamlined logic, Mr. Malaby with his woollier line of attack.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2010

There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim.

From Time Magazine Archive

The woolly plush hat shows no change either, except that if anything it is slightly woollier in the Alps than among us.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

And amid some of the woolliest spring weather in recent memory — drought, sleet, hard freezes, heat waves — my new native plantings are clambering out of the wood chips.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2010

At no event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history.

From Time Magazine Archive

The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were, as a matter of fact, excellent stockings of the heaviest, woolliest kind, and Whitman had bought them a year and a half ago in Scotland, whither he had gone after his wife's death.

From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis