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boned

verb

past tense of bone

as in dressed

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The bells atop a small stone church sounded as the faithful dressed in their Sunday best headed home to neat frame houses.

— Jane Wooldridge, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026
In the video, the rocker struts around in stage dressed in all black with slick white boots, jamming on his guitar.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

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On Friday, the health department released a list of 31 buildings where the bacteria was detected, and said 19 of them had already drained, cleaned and disinfected their cooling towers.

— Katie Houlis, CBS News, 12 July 2026
Tolbert warns that food storage containers with lids should be cleaned regularly to prevent contamination from dust mites and other parasites, especially before refilling.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

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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
The fires eviscerated many of the plants and trees in and around the burn zones, leaving behind barren lots and charred swaths of parkland.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 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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If the reorganization lag is being compounded by organized friction rather than just cost and complexity, the 8-to-12-year timeline Goldman extracted from the ICT era may turn out to be optimistic.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Copper is extracted in different areas with high mineral concentrations, which require enormous quantities of rock to be processed.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026

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