whites
Britishplural noun
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household linen or cotton goods, such as sheets
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white or off-white clothing, such as that worn for playing cricket
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an informal name for leucorrhoea
Example Sentences
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Whites made up the majority of the suburban city back then, and it was most famous in those days as the land that birthed the Carpenters and the Space Shuttle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
However, while adult Great Whites have vertebrae about 8 cm wide, the vertebrae from the Darwin shark exceed 12 cm in diameter.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025
It has been almost 20 years since Shelby Steele published the best-known of his five books on race, “White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Whites, who make up 7.3 percent of South Africa's population, generally enjoy a higher standard of living than the Black majority.
From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025
Whites who came at night got a better reception; the several Harlem nightclybs they patronized were geared to entertain and jive the night white crowd to get their money.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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