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as in shaggy
covered with or as if with hair
a hairy spider
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as in difficult
requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling
landing on that airstrip is always a hairy proposition
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as in disturbing
marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings
the snowstorm made for a hairy commute back home that evening
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Recent Examples of hairy
Each year, millions of Americans tune in for one of the holiday's hairiest and most beloved traditions: The National Dog Show.
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant.
—Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
But such coding tasks are a far cry from solving hairy optimization problems like floorplanning.
—Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
Tarantulas Large, hairy and slow-moving, tarantulas might seem like a nightmare for arachnophobes.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 2024
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant.
—Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
But such coding tasks are a far cry from solving hairy optimization problems like floorplanning.
—Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
Tarantulas Large, hairy and slow-moving, tarantulas might seem like a nightmare for arachnophobes.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Oct. 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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Or, if lucky and less stressed, then—apropos of the season—are reveling in the falling snow outside amidst fuzzy socks and a roaring fire.Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Still feeling the warm and fuzzy vibes from that Golden Bachelorette finale?Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 16 Dec. 2024
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An at least 200-year-old celebration of French and Mediterranean cuisine, macarons are renowned as the ‘impossible dessert,’ a result of the notoriously involved and difficult baking process.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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The manual entry of damage to structures like bridges used to be very expensive and time-consuming, a complex process made even more difficult by the fact that data entry and analysis are performed by both the agency’s own staff and external companies.Stephanie Glenk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Duchamp spent the last twenty years of his life working in secret on a three-dimensional tableau vivant of a naked, headless female body in a realistic landscape, a strangely disturbing image that is both a summary of his meta-retinal art and a total departure from it.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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One of the more disturbing results was from the dinner party at the Brooklyn apartment of my ProPublica colleague.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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Devin Booker and Jamal Murray tout two of the silkiest jumpers in the game.Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Jewell’s Elk Prairie Pinot Noir (Humboldt County) is a smooth and silky glass of comfort without the tug of aggressive tannins, the brashness of in-your-face fruit.Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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As decorative lights sparkle while the sun retreats, and rough winds hustle us to holiday parties indoors, most of us feel some mix of merriment and bleakness.Amanda Parrish Morgan, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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When the going gets rough, reach for one of our favorite body care products for softer, smoother skin from head to toe: Now, watch ballerina Tiler Peck get ready to perform in the Nutcracker: Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!Jenny Berg, Allure, 23 Dec. 2024
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What to Know Since mid-November, reports of drones have surfaced in northeastern states including New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, some near sensitive locations like military bases.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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The case focuses on efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia's 2020 election result by pressuring state officials and election workers, submitting a slate of false electors and attempting to tamper with sensitive voting equipment.Sam Gringlas, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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But the series also revealed an uneasy disconnect between the British public and the media.Katie Marie Davies, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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Here, she’s filmed upside-down against a stark white sky with the old girl bobbing on an uneasy axis.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Hairy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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