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Recent Examples of hankThere was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.—Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021 If a breeze is blowing, the air fills with the clamoring of jib hanks.—Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 The Shaker-style peg rack could hold hanks of yarn.—Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2012 Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms.—Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018 One photograph from the era shows a woman standing in a village as two men forcibly restrain her wrists; a third man grabs a hank of her blonde hair, his scissors poised to hack it away.—Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018 The next morning, the police and Victoria’s parents found articles of the girl’s clothing and a bloody hank of hair on a road near a sand pit in Mahwah.—David Stout, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017 By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.—Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
Badlands National Park, South Dakota The 244,000-acre Badlands National Park offers a mix of towering rock spires and buttes surrounding verdant prairie.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
13 June 2025
Freezing fog trundling in from Ocean Beach deposited ice crystals on every branch and spire, frosting the deco towers, the green pagodas and granite lions of Chinatown.
Many are created in order to address a concern (dandruff, breakage, brittleness) or to work most effectively for a specific hair type (4C curls, wavy hair, gray hair).
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Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
30 June 2025
These can range from bodyweight exercises like squats to traditional lifts like curls and rows.
Pirate Yakuza proverbial monkey’s paw furls on providing a thrilling pirate life and crime simulator at the expense of a more coherent or emotional story.
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Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
Winehouse was entirely in her element, swaying to the sultry songs like a furl of smoke and improvising inflections on the lyrics with aplomb.
The Panthers captain orchestrated a Cup pass line that saw every first-time winner get their hands on it before the team’s stars took a twirl.
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Michael Russo,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
The host then put the outfit’s comfortability to the test by strutting across the stage and doing a few twirls while the crowd applauded and cheered her on.
Brandt, whose research into Fifield stemmed from just a few sentences about her in a notebook on the Fifield family history from Brandt’s late father, laid two wreaths, one on Dr. Fifield’s grave and one for the entire family.
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Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2025
Two Millennia of Gold Jewels The jewels on view at the fair will also trace two millennia of gold jewelry, from an Ancient Greek oak wreath, circa 4th - 3rd century B.C. being offered by Kallos Gallery.
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