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powdery

adjective as in consisting of fine, loose grains

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Wind had scoured away most of the powdery snow, and rain had left a slick, brittle crust.

And, late last year a Finnish company called Solar Foods completed requirements, outlined by the Food and Drug Administration, that allow the company to sell a powdery protein made of pasteurized bacteria.

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By the end of twenty-four hours, we had inches and inches of powdery, white snow — somewhere around 8”-10” all along the Coast from Texas to Florida.

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When David Pearce found two women unconscious in his apartment around 5 a.m., their prone forms near empty liquor bottles and a powdery substance, he said, at first he didn’t think much of it.

Police said officers at the scene found a white powdery substance that looked like fentanyl, but the results of a toxicology report remain pending.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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