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a man of integrity who was never afraid to beard the lion in his den
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Recent Examples of bearded
New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024
Later in the morning, a bearded man appeared downriver.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
As his set winds down, a bearded man in Chaos merch sprints across the stage headed right for Ken.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
While living in the garden-level apartment of an 1878 town house on the Upper East Side, Domingo says three friends independently described seeing a tall, bearded man with a top hat in the space.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
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This stunning image of a bearded dragon (Pogona barbata) soaking up the rays in the Australian capital of Canberra has taken out the overall prize in the 2024 British Ecology Society's photography competition, an annual contest open to any nature snapper around the globe.
—New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024
Later in the morning, a bearded man appeared downriver.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
As his set winds down, a bearded man in Chaos merch sprints across the stage headed right for Ken.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
While living in the garden-level apartment of an 1878 town house on the Upper East Side, Domingo says three friends independently described seeing a tall, bearded man with a top hat in the space.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
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Police said that a backpack with Mangione when he was confronted at the McDonald’s was found to contain a gun, silencer and multiple rounds of 9 mm ammunition.Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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The Ducks compounded the situation by switching on every screen, taking away the top scoring options and leaving Andrews confronted by center Nate Bittle as Andrews drove toward the left wing.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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UnitedHealthcare has faced backlash for using artificial intelligence to review claims and issue denials.Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Corporations have been faced with how to demonstrate compliance; a budgetary spend on something difficult to associate with incremental profit.Steve Tengler, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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As a 10-year-old trapped in the body of a hirsute 40-year-old, Robin Williams is playing a character who isn’t aspiring to be older, like Hanks in the earlier film, but a lonely, awkward, lumbering kid who’s seized by alternating bouts of hyperactivity and deep insecurity.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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That’s when the futuristic campus — featuring William Pereira’s brutalist architecture — provided the setting for a violent showdown between humans and their more hirsute primate cousins in the dystopian Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.Will Swaim, National Review, 11 June 2024
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The 28-year-old actor appeared on the Dec. 12 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with his latest look, a thin mustache and his normally long curly hair trimmed in a shorter, shaggy crop.Hedy Phillips, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Take a cue from the Olsen handbook and look for shaggy details, longline shapes, and reversible designs.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
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The ladybug begins life as a spiky black crawler; the garden tiger moth starts out life as an extravagantly furred caterpillar.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
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Many furred mammals have apocrine glands, including camels and donkeys, as well as chimpanzees.Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
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The spider is the largest and hairiest member of its genus and was identified by David Ortiz of Masaryk University in Czechia and Elier Fonseca of the Cuban Zoological Society.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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When ripe, the hairy green fruit measures about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) long.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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Step 3: Tidy the Harvest When the garlic is fully cured with papery skins and brittle, brown leaves, brush away any excess soil with your fingers and clip back the bristly roots.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2024
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The authors dutifully report that each pappus, the bristly head of a seed, contains 100 rod-like filaments on average, each about 7.4 mm long and 16.3 μm thick.Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
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“Bearded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearded. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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