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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

The pigs are about four months old but will grow into large, woolly adults.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But even if we’re meant to view our woolly antagonists as sheeple, after a fashion, “The Sheep Detectives” culminates on an optimistic note for both the four-legged and the two.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

They sculpted for themselves a virtual world where their coily, kinky, nappy, woolly hair was normal.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

You will need your woollies for we are going where sunlight never comes.

From The Spanish Chest by Edna Adelaide Brown

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

In Pixar’s “Monsters University,” they aren’t made of slugs, snails and puppy dog tails — they’re monstrous versions of those ingredients, only cuter, fuzzier, brighter, wilder and woollier.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2013

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

At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The performance goes on for an hour, growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep.

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

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

And he will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

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