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Recent Examples of scaly
The adorably scaly creatures are scattered around the world.
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Samantha Neely, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
The intrepid trio scale cliffs, run across forests and woods all kinds of creatures in pursuit on ground and air to a massive, scaly sea creature from the Colin Trevorrow movies chasing down a yacht battleship with Johansson firing back.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
These mutations also increase the risk of ichthyosis vulgaris (dry, scaly skin) and keratosis pilaris (small, rough bumps).1
Environmental and Lifestyle Triggers
Your symptoms may appear or worsen if you are exposed to certain triggers.
—Casey Gallagher, Health, 3 Apr. 2025
Take the Pet Personality Test to better understand your furry (or scaly) companion.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Samantha Neely, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025
The intrepid trio scale cliffs, run across forests and woods all kinds of creatures in pursuit on ground and air to a massive, scaly sea creature from the Colin Trevorrow movies chasing down a yacht battleship with Johansson firing back.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
These mutations also increase the risk of ichthyosis vulgaris (dry, scaly skin) and keratosis pilaris (small, rough bumps).1
Environmental and Lifestyle Triggers
Your symptoms may appear or worsen if you are exposed to certain triggers.
—Casey Gallagher, Health, 3 Apr. 2025
Take the Pet Personality Test to better understand your furry (or scaly) companion.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaly
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Cervical dysplasia on a Pap test is a squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL).—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
6 Sep. 2024
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Eligible participants must identify as Black, be assigned female at birth or self-identify as women, not have a history of cancer (except basal or squamous skin cancer) and be between ages 25 and 55.—
Shana O. Ntiri,
Baltimore Sun,
21 June 2024
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“Scaly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaly. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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