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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
They’re lined with a wooly shearling blend that’ll keep your toes toasty through winter.
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Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
That loss may soon include the woolly devil – which hasn’t been spotted since 2024.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
Stone Age painters frequently included the woolly rhino in their work, including on cave paintings in France’s Chauvet–Pont d’Arc dating back about 30,000 years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
And surprisingly, the woolly rhino’s genetics offer no indication of a declining population.
—Jeanne Timmons, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
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Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
That loss may soon include the woolly devil – which hasn’t been spotted since 2024.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
Stone Age painters frequently included the woolly rhino in their work, including on cave paintings in France’s Chauvet–Pont d’Arc dating back about 30,000 years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
And surprisingly, the woolly rhino’s genetics offer no indication of a declining population.
—Jeanne Timmons, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woolly
Adjective
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Using a fork, gradually draw the flour into the liquid until a shaggy dough begins to form.—
Monti Carlo,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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Redmayne brings a sweetly doltish everyman energy to this increasingly off-kilter affair, with much of the dialogue between him and his co-stars (including Stratton-Twine as the missing woman’s slacker brother) improvised in disarmingly shaggy fashion.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Buried deep in a mound of tribbles and emerging from the hairy pile of creatures, Kirk handles himself admirably, embracing the unfortunate situation with a sense of comedic calm that adds yet another humanistic dimension to the iconic captain's character.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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That held up as the GWG — but not without some hairy moments.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Bolstered by fuzzy electric guitars, the song also provides the perfect moment for TWS to show off their aegyo — a quintessentially South Korean gesture of acting adorable that doesn’t always translate well overseas.—
Jae-Ha Kim,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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One of Lerner’s virtues as a writer is that his work resists this relentless gathering of data (news, text messages, posts), a gathering that’s both abundant and diffuse, and that, paradoxically, feels like a giving over of one’s mind and capacities to fuzzy abstraction.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Like much of the first half of the episode, before the plane crash, this gala sequence is shot in silky gold colors, as if John and Carolyn had already been sanctified.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Glamour contributor Mary Honkus expected this to have an oily consistency, but instead the texture feels thick and silky.—
Danielle Sinay,
Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Woolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolly. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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