boning

verb

present participle of bone
as in cleaning

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  1. cleaning
  2. dressing
  3. disemboweling
  4. extracting
  5. drawing
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  • Other ways to prevent cockroaches with baking soda are to utilize it as a cleaning agent.
    — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The only thing better than a cozy fireplace is one that doesn’t need, soot, wood, or chimney cleaning.
    — Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaning
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  • Rather than importing a concept and dressing it in local garnish, Thymes built its menu around what the island itself produces.
    — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The brands Roach avoided dressing Zendaya in for the red carpet are Saint Laurent, Dior, Valentino, Chanel, and Gucci.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of dressing
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  • Films that accompanied the curriculum also showed the Netsilik disemboweling a seal and carving up a caribou.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
Definition of disemboweling
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  • And like any foundational infrastructure, extracting true, durable productivity contributions demands significant capital expenditure, painstaking organizational restructuring and time.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the collaboration can continue extracting information from its remaining data.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracting
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  • Georgia Power’s deal to provide electricity to a massive, OpenAI campus planned near Savannah is drawing regulators’ scrutiny and reviving debates about how to keep residential customers safe from the facilities’ costs.
    — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Contra Despite the cancellations in some European countries, West’s shows in others have gone ahead, drawing large crowds.
    — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of drawing
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