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Recent Examples of hirsute In fact, plenty of other teams from the Oakland A’s of the ‘70s, who were actually paid $300 by owner Charley Finley to sport facial hair, to the scruffy and hirsute Red Sox of 2004, won it all with facial hair. Marc Edelman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 Headed by the opinionated Phil Robertson, founder of the Duck Commander enterprise, the clan includes his wife Kay; his long-bearded brother Si; his equally hirsute sons Willie, Jase, and Jep; and their assorted wives and children. Danny Horn, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024 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 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 See All Example Sentences for hirsute
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Adjective
  • That seemed like a big, hairy, audacious goal, and one that would motivate me.
    Shimite Obialo, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Flying your favorite spacecraft is as simple as plopping down in the captain’s chair to engage in some hairy dogfights and clandestine patrols over strange worlds or the inky cosmic blackness as the gameplay shifts from a standard FPS to a third-person perspective.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With their thick, shaggy fur, the 5-month-old wolves are better adapted to the cold.
    Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In the first, the sheepdog appears engulfed by a thick coat of long white fur, his face nearly obscured by the shaggy mass.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Active Time: 1 hr Total Time: 2 hrs Servings: 12 Creamy white lasagna is filled with cheesy layers of pasta, sausage and mushrooms, a silky bechamel, and mozzarella.
    Nicole Hopper, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The lightweight texture means no greasy residue—just silky, radiant skin.
    Tira Urquhart, Essence, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Hirsute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hirsute. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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