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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
Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
Others have seen an apparition of a bearded man who looks like the crew member.
—Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
This creationist backstory helped shade Gru’s trajectory as a bad guy, which Paul likens to a bearded fellow in The Lord of the Rings.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 July 2024
Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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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
Others have seen an apparition of a bearded man who looks like the crew member.
—Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
This creationist backstory helped shade Gru’s trajectory as a bad guy, which Paul likens to a bearded fellow in The Lord of the Rings.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 July 2024
Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Arthur, led from his cell by a guard who wanders off, is confronted by another inmate who proceeds to tell him a joke.Jack Smart, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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With this new evidence, detectives confronted the parent, but the parent continued to deny any involvement or knowledge about the case.Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
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Only about 8% of people notified over the years did not call to work out an overpayment arrangement, and that group faced the loss of 100% of benefits to handle repayments, O'Malley said.Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
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According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, it is alleged that Hodinkee has faced numerous challenges in scaling and developing its business in recent years.Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 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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Style insiders are going all in on the look, too; fashion month’s crowds were awash in brushed knits, and New Yorkers of all stripes have pulled out their shaggiest jumpers as sweater weather has descended upon the city.Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2024
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Sofia’s haircut is an early sign of her rebellion; a shaggy mullet that calls back to Jane Fonda in the 1970s thriller Klute.Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 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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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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Amy Adams finds herself in a hairy situation in the first trailer for Nightbitch.Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 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 1 Dec. 2024.
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