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hairs

noun

plural of hair
1
as in inches
a very small distance or degree a race that was won by a hair

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2
as in fibers
a thin, flexible structure that resembles a hair discovered hairs on the plant's stem

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3
as in wools
the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick has no hair, but wears a wig a coat made of camel's hair

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Recent Examples of hairs Crosby, with a few more white hairs than last season, thought about the comment for a second before shrugging his shoulders and smiling. — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Some baby hummingbirds disguise themselves as caterpillars with stinging hairs to avoid predators, while octopus, squid, and cuttlefish use camouflage to blend in with their surroundings and hide. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026 The hairs were long, black, and curly like the pubes of a buffalo. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 Here's a look at the products in the cross-hairs of the import bans. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 These are actually reflective hairs, and the stripe gives away the stiltgrass. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 9 Sep. 2026 The pins printed down to the smallest pillar, appearing like tiny hairs, which required a magnifying glass to verify. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026 Now Pedicularis had emerged as one of the first heralds of the Arctic summer, its stems wrapped in grayish, silky hairs that protect it like a warm winter coat. — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 As estrogen falls while testosterone continues circulating, once-fine facial hairs can become coarser and more noticeable. — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hairs
  1. inches
  2. fibers
  3. wools
  4. steps
  5. threads
  6. coats
  7. necks
Noun
  • The potential for one or two places to see significantly more rain, perhaps up to 4 inches, remains possible though.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The blade of the hatchet was about three and a half inches long, which was seemingly consistent with the size of the wounds found on Abby and Andrew Borden, per the outlet.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of inches
Noun
  • The experts also said to avoid high temperatures, which can fade denim and damage fibers.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In animals, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) inside the muscle supplies most of the mechanical energy, while an electrical impulse travels along a motor neuron and triggers a chain of events that causes skeletal muscle fibers to contract.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of fibers
Noun
  • Using luxurious cottons, silks, wools and linen to emphasize the simplicity and ease of wardrobe staples — T-shirts, shorts, sweatshirts, skirts, button-down shirts, pants and tunics — elevating their wearability for day and night.
    — Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Although the word cashmere is sometimes incorrectly applied to extremely soft wools, only the product of the cashmere goat is true cashmere.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of wools
Noun
  • Astaire’s dance steps are always directional, carrying him somewhere and toward something—the girl, the boat, the park bench.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The four plaintiffs argued that the city failed to take steps to prevent further lead from entering the water supply and gave residents false assurance that the water was safe.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of steps
Noun
  • With his careful direction, the silkworms slowly adopted Liang’s foreign objects as their homes, covering them with snowy white threads, creating their own sculptures.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Delevingne is styled in threads that come straight from McCartney’s Autumn 2026 line, such as the Checked Belted Wool Coat and the fun-loving Alpaca Jacquard Knit Jumper.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of threads
Noun
  • As the leaves start to don their sienna coats and the mercury drops into the comfortable-sweater- weather range, autumn's many joys come to the fore.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Toward the end of the show, a female model came trundling down the runway, adorned in one of the collection’s more elegant coats crafted from a buoyant faux fur.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of coats
Noun
  • And by donating these items, those green beaded necklaces can now hang around the necks of some other lucky children.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Better yet, many of them also feature spring’s other big jacket trends, like funnel necks.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of necks

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“Hairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairs. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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