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boning

verb

present participle of bone

as in cleaning

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Leave the cleaning solution to soak on the rubber gasket for about 5 to 10 minutes.

— Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
In all, roughly 1,200 workers are still grinding away, some with power tools, others with 10-foot-long feather dusters, cleaning the rafters beneath the canopy.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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Heritage dressing took on a more subversive edge, mixing preppy and equestrian references with grunge, while pale pastels brought softness to the season.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
That philosophy is perhaps especially apt for a designer whose work has always found energy in people dressing to be noticed.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Sep. 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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Refiners turn oil discarded by restaurants and other waste fats into transportation fuel, extracting additional value from crops already grown and oils that have already served their original purpose.

— Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Two oil companies, Britain’s Rockhopper Exploration and Israel’s Navitas Petroleum, are due to begin a joint project extracting from the oilfield within two years.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026

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Skytrax collects data from airline passengers via surveys over the course of 12 months, drawing from over 100 different passenger nationalities.

— Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, in February, Kaplan sold Rembrandt’s drawing Young Lion Resting for $18 million at auction at Sotheby’s, the proceeds of which supported global wild cat conservation organization Panthera.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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