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boning

verb

present participle of bone

as in cleaning

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The lid for covering food on the grill and the magnetic wall strip for knife and utensil storage lack cleaning.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Performing basic maintenance and cleaning the system shouldn’t be too difficult.

— Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026

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Dabrowski’s favorite moment came outside the livestream of the Telfar event from New York, where young Parisians gathered in a spirit of community, dressing with individuality rather than for the cameras.

— Alex Badia, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
Reynolds modeled Mai on ancient Roman senators and military leaders, dressing him in robes reminiscent of Tahitian tapa cloth but with a Roman flair.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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Varga contributed costumes, props, sets and visual artwork to Gwar, which became infamous beyond the metal world for their grotesque (if good-natured) theatrics, which included disemboweling effigies of religious and political figures onstage.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Films that accompanied the curriculum also showed the Netsilik disemboweling a seal and carving up a caribou.

— Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025

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The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Arabic text from images and documents are relatively compact.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Over the past quarter century, foreign direct investment across sub-Saharan Africa has remained relatively flat—around two to three percent as a share of GDP—and most of it has gone to extracting oil, diamonds, and gold and other minerals.

— Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright has warned that drawing the reserve down too far could damage the salt caverns where the oil is stored.

— Heather Occhino, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
Later that decade, hippie love-ins were held regularly at the base of the carousel, occasionally drawing the likes of the Hells Angels or law enforcement.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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