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verb

past tense of beard

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Recent Examples of bearded
Adjective
While living in the garden-level apartment of an 1878 town house on the Upper East Side, Domingo says three friends independently described seeing a tall, bearded man with a top hat in the space. Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024 Others have seen an apparition of a bearded man who looks like the crew member. Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024 This creationist backstory helped shade Gru’s trajectory as a bad guy, which Paul likens to a bearded fellow in The Lord of the Rings. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 July 2024 Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bearded 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearded
Verb
  • Arthur, led from his cell by a guard who wanders off, is confronted by another inmate who proceeds to tell him a joke.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • With this new evidence, detectives confronted the parent, but the parent continued to deny any involvement or knowledge about the case.
    Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The former minister faced a total of 35 charges, two of which were corruption-related but were later amended to charges of receiving gifts while a public servant.
    Reuters, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Continue reading … ‘LOADED GUN IN MY FACE’ – Garth Brooks has faced a list of controversies over the years.
    Fox News, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • As a 10-year-old trapped in the body of a hirsute 40-year-old, Robin Williams is playing a character who isn’t aspiring to be older, like Hanks in the earlier film, but a lonely, awkward, lumbering kid who’s seized by alternating bouts of hyperactivity and deep insecurity.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • That’s when the futuristic campus — featuring William Pereira’s brutalist architecture — provided the setting for a violent showdown between humans and their more hirsute primate cousins in the dystopian Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
    Will Swaim, National Review, 11 June 2024
Adjective
  • The event was presided over by Shealy himself, who was never far from his big, shaggy brown dog, Buster, or his girlfriend, Debbie Fields, the founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries.
    Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This might be a shaggy turkey story, but bear with us.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • Many furred mammals have apocrine glands, including camels and donkeys, as well as chimpanzees.
    Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
Adjective
  • Tarantulas Large, hairy and slow-moving, tarantulas might seem like a nightmare for arachnophobes.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Amy Adams finds herself in a hairy situation in the first trailer for Nightbitch.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Step 3: Tidy the Harvest When the garlic is fully cured with papery skins and brittle, brown leaves, brush away any excess soil with your fingers and clip back the bristly roots.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The authors dutifully report that each pappus, the bristly head of a seed, contains 100 rod-like filaments on average, each about 7.4 mm long and 16.3 μm thick.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018

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“Bearded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearded. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.

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