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Recent Examples of powdery Pollen, a powdery substance produced in male plant parts, must reach female plant parts for plants to reproduce. Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025 Autonomy on alien ground Each step the robot took on the powdery surface added to the scientists’ growing dataset. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025 Crispy, powdery pecan snowballs are traditional holiday fare for many a Southern grandma. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025 During the arrest, police found a clear bag containing a pink powdery substance, believed to be the drug 2C, inside the phone that Medina Puche had given the victim for work. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for powdery
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Adjective
  • With Onum folded into Falcon, logs stop being dusty records and start becoming live intelligence.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • There, water to sustain such a colony may be trapped less than a foot beneath the dusty red surface.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The sharp-yet-flexible points and buildable tint leave behind a trio of micro-fine strokes that, when brushed along your arches, blend seamlessly with your natural hairs.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Before all that happened, though, there was the eight-course dinner, which went totally fine as predicted.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Powdery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/powdery. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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