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Recent Examples of snow-white
The only guards on duty today are hat-tipping doormen ushering guests into snow-white corridors lined with gold.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
From inlets covered in neon-green algae, snow-white egrets took flight over ships stacked with thousands of brightly colored containers—imagine a mash-up of Gauguin and Mondrian.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
To add to her icy look, her waterline and inner corners are brightened with a snow-white shadow and liner combo.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 1 Feb. 2026
Bone-in ham steak flops over the rim of its plate, and the table surface is erased when an entrée’s sidekicks — yeast-fragrant rolls the size of baseballs, a green salad practically obscured by a snow-white dollop of the house dressing — are dropped off.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Brassica oleracea Sun Exposure: Full sun Soil Type: Loam, sand
Soil pH: Neutral
Gardenias are the perfect shrub to add a lovely fragrance and snow-white blooms to the garden.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Tall, lean and topped with a crown of snow-white hair, Boston’s own John Slattery has – on stage, television and in films – managed a spectacular career playing smart, commanding and occasionally devious men.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
Today, coveted for its snow-white color, veined with delicate gray, the marble is being mined at an astonishing rate.
—Meara Sharma, The Dial, 22 July 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
From inlets covered in neon-green algae, snow-white egrets took flight over ships stacked with thousands of brightly colored containers—imagine a mash-up of Gauguin and Mondrian.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
To add to her icy look, her waterline and inner corners are brightened with a snow-white shadow and liner combo.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 1 Feb. 2026
Bone-in ham steak flops over the rim of its plate, and the table surface is erased when an entrée’s sidekicks — yeast-fragrant rolls the size of baseballs, a green salad practically obscured by a snow-white dollop of the house dressing — are dropped off.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Brassica oleracea Sun Exposure: Full sun Soil Type: Loam, sand
Soil pH: Neutral
Gardenias are the perfect shrub to add a lovely fragrance and snow-white blooms to the garden.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
Tall, lean and topped with a crown of snow-white hair, Boston’s own John Slattery has – on stage, television and in films – managed a spectacular career playing smart, commanding and occasionally devious men.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
Today, coveted for its snow-white color, veined with delicate gray, the marble is being mined at an astonishing rate.
—Meara Sharma, The Dial, 22 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snow-white
Adjective
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Wet or snowy roads may remain slick as temperatures fall below freezing everywhere.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2026
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After a snowy weekend, parade weather is expected to remain a bit chilly with temperatures in the low teens under cloudy skies.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Videos and photos from the scene showed thick gray smoke billowing from the complex and some workers jumping from a building belonging to Anjun Industrial.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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The rain again caused multiple delays throughout the mostly gray, sometimes sunny and unseasonably cool day, in the end postponing at least six matches.—
Susan Miller Degnan,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Out of the bloodstains shone a pair of bright blue eyes, and a heart was beating under the pallid skin that looked several sizes too big.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Three weeks after that hit that sent a crowd of 75,261 at Empower Field into a pallid silence, Bryant is ever the same.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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For your own pale pink feathery moment, try this Midi slip dress from Anthropologie ($90).—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
16 Mar. 2026
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The neutral tones of her makeup paired perfectly with her pale, champagne gown, and her oodles of diamonds feel completed by her jewelry-like nail art.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Easier, maybe, to imagine Blume rejecting the general proposition of an author biography, which seeks to root a subject’s work in their specific experiences, dislodging them from a supposedly neutral or unmarked position.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
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The measure renames the cap-and-trade program cap-and-invest and extends it 15 years from 2030, the current expiration date, coinciding with the state’s declared intention to make California carbon neutral by 2045.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Grab your telescope and look out for a line of faint stars extending diagonally from Gienag above Algorab, which will lead you directly to the patch of sky containing M104!—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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Normally, such events are invisible to telescopes, producing only faint ripples in spacetime.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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His style of play — muscular, bustling, old-school — stands in stark opposition to his bleached hair.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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Center creases were prominent in Todd Snyder’s assortment of bleached and dark wash jeans.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Snow-white.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snow-white. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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