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Recent Examples of holey
For example, receive a new pair of socks, finally throw away that extra holey pair hiding in the back of the drawer.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2026
That’s thanks to a quirk of South Florida’s geology, where the entire region is perched on holey rock that does little to stop the rise of groundwater, which Sukop’s research has shown is rising on pace with sea level.
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Susan Merriam,
Miami Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey.
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New York Times,
24 Oct. 2021
In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb.
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Natasha Lavender,
SELF,
26 July 2019
Harry makes it out of the holey boat but lands right in the oil like one of those baby pelicans that has to get washed off with Dawn.
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Eliza Thompson,
Cosmopolitan,
17 July 2017
Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness?
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Kelsey Stiegman,
Seventeen,
14 July 2017
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2026
That’s thanks to a quirk of South Florida’s geology, where the entire region is perched on holey rock that does little to stop the rise of groundwater, which Sukop’s research has shown is rising on pace with sea level.
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Susan Merriam,
Miami Herald,
12 Nov. 2025
But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey.
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New York Times,
24 Oct. 2021
In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb.
—
Natasha Lavender,
SELF,
26 July 2019
Harry makes it out of the holey boat but lands right in the oil like one of those baby pelicans that has to get washed off with Dawn.
—
Eliza Thompson,
Cosmopolitan,
17 July 2017
Remember when someone turned their fingernails into holey slices of Swiss cheese and the internet was devastated by the grossness?
—
Kelsey Stiegman,
Seventeen,
14 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for holey
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Using shredded rotisserie chicken makes this meal a cinch while chipotle pepper in adobo gives the meat plenty of flavor.
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So as the team made its way up the Canyon of Heroes Thursday morning, it was showered instead with shredded office paper and blue and orange confetti.
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With communication patchy, social media and online registries have become a crucial tool for many Venezuelans seeking information and resources beyond sparse government statistics.
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Talk to your doctor if hair loss is severe, patchy, or doesn’t improve after six months.
Adjective
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The Reflecting Pool has been a pet project of the president, who, before renovations got underway this spring, characterized it as dilapidated and dirty and said previous presidents had neglected it.
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Unable to pay rent, the boys moved several hours away to the small, dilapidated house with the leaky roof where rent is minimal.
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Too mangy, too rangy, prowling in their bony elegance, leaping weightless from dangerously precarious mounds of sharp edges, peering yellow- eyed from shadows.
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To write, especially in a first draft, is to submit myself to the mangy, cackling glory of not knowing.
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Now Trump wanted Hildebrand and two dozen other energy executives to commit to investing $100 billion in Venezuela’s decrepit oil industry.
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That demand has come back to bite the alliance as one of its wealthiest members struggles to refurbish its decrepit military.
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Melanie Hamrick, a former member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet, was leaping down a dingy stairwell in the company’s lower-Broadway rehearsal building recently.
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Even though modern machines and detergents have taken most of the workload out of the task, there are still some outdated laundry habits that may leave your clothes and linens looking dingy, smelling less than fresh, and feeling scratchy.
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“Holey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holey. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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