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also wooly
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as in hairy
covered with or as if with hair
still had a water bed and a woolly coverlet on top of it
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Recent Examples of woolly
On Tuesday, Colossal announced that its scientists have simultaneously edited seven genes in mice embryos to create mice with long, thick, woolly hair.
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CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
All of them successfully expressed the gold, woolly hair of the mammoth as well as its accelerated lipid metabolism.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
These included long, woolly hair and a way of metabolizing fat that helped the animals survive well in the cold.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
The woolly mouse, to a minor extent, and the dire wolves, to a scientifically seismic one, are first steps in that direction.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
All of them successfully expressed the gold, woolly hair of the mammoth as well as its accelerated lipid metabolism.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
These included long, woolly hair and a way of metabolizing fat that helped the animals survive well in the cold.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
The woolly mouse, to a minor extent, and the dire wolves, to a scientifically seismic one, are first steps in that direction.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woolly
Adjective
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Head out onto the water to sail around the archipelago, keeping your eyes peeled for breaching minke whales and bearded seals, as well as shaggy muskoxen—one of the few megafauna to survive the Ice Age—and Arctic wolves patrolling the shoreline.—
Chloe Berge,
Outside Online,
17 June 2025
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For the occasion, Taylor-Johnson kept his curls shaggy.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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Several things may cause dark black spots on the tongue, including a benign condition called hairy tongue, some medications, and some health conditions.—
Wendy Wisner,
Health,
8 June 2025
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Enjoy some hairy onboard footage as this alien spaceship of a sailboat records the second-fastest speed in history.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy too, although technical noms will be its strongest play.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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Hares are also born fully furred and with their eyes open, a trait called precocial, whereas rabbits are born hairless, blind, and vulnerable, needing more parental care in the early stages of life.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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But the felt’s furred obscurity conjured novel mysteries.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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More Getty Images Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open champion, had a rough week.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Everyone plodded along, trying desperately to avoid rough that hasn’t been cut and greens that never seem to lose their speed.—
Doug Ferguson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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“Woolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolly. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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