white line
noun
: a band or edge of something white
especially
: a stripe painted on a road and used to guide traffic
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Above everything were white lines connecting different places, a network of cables or beams.
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Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
Currently, faint white lines outline soccer fields, dirt lots serve as baseball diamonds and a playground sits under a green awning.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 21 Mar. 2026
Google said on Thursday that its artificial intelligence (AI) forecasts helped prevent contrails, the white lines that often follow planes in the sky.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2026
To show me, Max reaches a metal pick into a tank of clear water and scrapes a white line that seems to hover in the center of the tank.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
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Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
Currently, faint white lines outline soccer fields, dirt lots serve as baseball diamonds and a playground sits under a green awning.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 21 Mar. 2026
Google said on Thursday that its artificial intelligence (AI) forecasts helped prevent contrails, the white lines that often follow planes in the sky.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2026
To show me, Max reaches a metal pick into a tank of clear water and scrapes a white line that seems to hover in the center of the tank.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
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“White line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20line. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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