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Recent Examples of scaly
It's linked to psoriasis, a skin condition causing inflamed, scaly patches on the skin.
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Hannah Harper, Health, 18 Apr. 2025
Nightcrawler's look shared a complementary yet distinct aesthetic to fellow blue mutant Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), who donned detailed, scaly makeup from head to toe in the first three X-Men movies (and her makeup routine took nine hours to complete!).
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The adorably scaly creatures are scattered around the world.
—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
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Hannah Harper, Health, 18 Apr. 2025
Nightcrawler's look shared a complementary yet distinct aesthetic to fellow blue mutant Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), who donned detailed, scaly makeup from head to toe in the first three X-Men movies (and her makeup routine took nine hours to complete!).
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The adorably scaly creatures are scattered around the world.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaly
squamous
Adjective
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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 23 May. 2025.
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