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Adjective
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Remove from heat and stir in the coarse salt, making sure it is evenly distributed.—
Kelly Brant,
arkansasonline.com,
7 Jan. 2025 -
Fine, oily hair needs different products than dry, coarse hair.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
1 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The Supreme Court’s support of a broad definition of birthright citizenship dates to 1898, in a ruling involving Wong Kim Ark, whose citizenship as the U.S.-born child of Chinese immigrants was challenged because his parents had had no right to become citizens themselves.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Europeans are protected in much broader ways, too. Unlike Americans, Europeans are protected from having their personal demographic information, such as their race and political views, collected by tech companies without their consent, thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The salty cheese fuses beautifully with the sweet and spicy onions.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Jan. 2025
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Its rich, fearlessly salty presence adds pop to dishes like pad thai, lime chili shrimp and papaya salad.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Entire pieces can—and have—been written on the suggestive use of food in Luca Guadagnino's films alone.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
21 Dec. 2024
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The question is not how or why this character begins turning into a furry, rodent-killing canine at night, which Heller shows via a few suggestive body-horror shots and quick cuts, but what the after-effect of the transformation is.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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His writing included warnings to distinguish between leeches: good (round and shiny) and bad (black or blue in color and found near fetid water).—
Megan Cassidy-Welch,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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The model was photographed leaving Gigi’s home in NoHo, New York in a casual fit: a black zip-up and top, Tona leggings, pull-on boots, and a black and blue reversible knit and quilted puffer jacket from her sister’s brand Guest in Residence.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Unity is a crude oil tanker that is 245.07 meters (approximately 804 feet) long and 42 meters (approximately 137 feet) wide, according to MarineTraffic.com.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Immediately following Trump’s remarks, crude oil prices turned lower.—
Dan Mangan,Christina Wilkie,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Daniel Solis, who began cooperating with the government after being confronted with evidence of his own salacious misdeeds.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Dressed demurely in black, Tissot’s subject is portrayed as a respectable, working-class woman—but the salacious undertones that appear in many of his artworks are present, too.—
Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The evocation of the boy’s impure actions, as well as the undertow of sexuality in both his parish priest’s solicitude and his father’s violence, caught the attention of the censors, who typically busied themselves outlawing pulp erotica.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
29 Dec. 2024
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“Coarse-grained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse-grained. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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