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boned

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past tense of bone

as in dressed

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During one scene, Einbinder — dressed in a replica of a black dress Gyllenhaal wore in the original film — acted out an explicit orgasm as described in the script, breaking character in the middle of the scene to double over laughing.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 29 July 2026
The menu also has a chicken sandwich with avocado, lettuce and tomato dressed in sour cream and onion sauce.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026

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The day before, 22-year-old Jan Ullrich had eviscerated his opponents in a 55km time trial in and around Saint-Etienne.

— Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Book review sections are evaporating; NPR has been eviscerated; and social media followings no longer seem to be reliably converting into book sales.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

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Self, who was also 25, was later found by his neighbor nearly disemboweled.

— Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 June 2026
Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.

— María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026

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As the air is extracted, the coffee grounds transition from a loose, flowing state into a rigid mass that molds itself around the object’s shape.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
Working with paleopathologists from the University of Pisa in Italy, the team analyzed DNA extracted from the ribs of Francesco I de' Medici, as well as Giovanni de' Medici, his younger brother who died of malaria 25 years earlier.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

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