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also wooly
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as in hairy
covered with or as if with hair
still had a water bed and a woolly coverlet on top of it
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Recent Examples of woolly
On this winter’s night, although far from his character’s Vatican setting, Fiennes still cuts a dash in denim and a woolly sweater.
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
The craft was nothing new to those in fiber arts or the Pacific West Coast Salish Indigenous peoples who bred woolly dogs, now extinct, for thousands of years.
—Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
This woolly batch of SoundCloud demos and loosies marries the winding, kaleidoscopic approach of rap music, before sample laws to the melody-forward tendencies of the cell-phone-as-sampler era.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
As part of the bizarre tradition on the island of Borkum, Lower Saxony, six men dress up as monsters in woolly costumes to hunt the women, before holding them and subjecting them to the bull horn beatings.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
The craft was nothing new to those in fiber arts or the Pacific West Coast Salish Indigenous peoples who bred woolly dogs, now extinct, for thousands of years.
—Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
This woolly batch of SoundCloud demos and loosies marries the winding, kaleidoscopic approach of rap music, before sample laws to the melody-forward tendencies of the cell-phone-as-sampler era.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
As part of the bizarre tradition on the island of Borkum, Lower Saxony, six men dress up as monsters in woolly costumes to hunt the women, before holding them and subjecting them to the bull horn beatings.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woolly
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Natasha Lyonne, who’s back as shaggy amateur detective Charlie Cale, was floored watching Erivo dip in and out of so many roles, which include a DJ, a professor, an artist, and an apple picker.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Close on either side were eerie woods flooded with shallow swamp water, the trees’ shaggy trunks festooned with air plants and the occasional ghost orchid.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Mar. 2025
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Flying your favorite spacecraft is as simple as plopping down in the captain’s chair to engage in some hairy dogfights and clandestine patrols over strange worlds or the inky cosmic blackness as the gameplay shifts from a standard FPS to a third-person perspective.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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See 6 finalists for new position Starbucks is removing some drinks from its menu in March: See the full list Man busted in airport smuggling cocaine under toupee: Watch video of hairy situation Will an asteroid hit Earth?—
James Powel,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Top Chef: Colorado is a standout of the franchise's back half, a warm and fuzzy season with memorable chefs — RIP Fatima — that's blissfully straightforward.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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What Freedman pointed out — and where this case is admittedly fuzzy — is that just because Lively felt harassed does not mean she was legally harassed.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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The ladybug begins life as a spiky black crawler; the garden tiger moth starts out life as an extravagantly furred caterpillar.—
Rivka Galchen,
The New Yorker,
31 Aug. 2023
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Many furred mammals have apocrine glands, including camels and donkeys, as well as chimpanzees.—
Jeff Goodell,
Time,
6 July 2023
Adjective
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Hard water can also cause clothes to feel rough and scratchy against your skin.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Mar. 2025
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Sony has also had a bit of a rough time with the PS5 Pro, a device which has had at least some measure of technical problems where at times, its upgrades are failing to impress or even on occasion, making some games look worse.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Woolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolly. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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