white line
noun
: a band or edge of something white
especially
: a stripe painted on a road and used to guide traffic
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There is something supremely beautiful about the tennis court: the grit of har-tru beneath white sneakers, the soft landings on cut grass, the clean contrast of white lines against red clay.
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Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
Angel Gomes crossed the white line against Crystal Palace in May 2017, on the last day of the 2016-17 campaign, and became United’s youngest player of the Premier League era.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
The north end of the range, where Copper World is proposed, is already packed with dozens of drill pads and connecting roads — white lines and patches carved out of the brown slopes — where Hudbay has extracted cores to prove the potential value of its prospect.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
Rich Peppiatt, who previously has made videos for the band, captures the frenzied pace of all this by editing shots that often last a fraction of a second, cutting between microphone, hand, face, somebody else’s delirious expression, a white line.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
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Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
Angel Gomes crossed the white line against Crystal Palace in May 2017, on the last day of the 2016-17 campaign, and became United’s youngest player of the Premier League era.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
The north end of the range, where Copper World is proposed, is already packed with dozens of drill pads and connecting roads — white lines and patches carved out of the brown slopes — where Hudbay has extracted cores to prove the potential value of its prospect.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
Rich Peppiatt, who previously has made videos for the band, captures the frenzied pace of all this by editing shots that often last a fraction of a second, cutting between microphone, hand, face, somebody else’s delirious expression, a white line.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
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“White line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20line. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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