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Recent Examples of callus
From nail care to callus removal, special tools and techniques will ensure no injury occurs.
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Maxine Lipner,
Verywell Health,
3 Feb. 2025
This allows the stem to callus where it was cut or broken, which helps prevent disease.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Dec. 2024
Those with sweaty pits and callused hands — asphalt rakers, flatbed drivers, farmers, and welders — already know the score.
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Letters To The Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 June 2024
Often, a keelboat could manage just two crossings a day, for a total of 15 or 20 miles; afterward, their shirts bloodied, their shoulders callused, the men were rewarded with a fillee—a cup of whiskey chased by a cup of river water.
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Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 June 2024
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Maxine Lipner,
Verywell Health,
3 Feb. 2025
This allows the stem to callus where it was cut or broken, which helps prevent disease.
—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Dec. 2024
Those with sweaty pits and callused hands — asphalt rakers, flatbed drivers, farmers, and welders — already know the score.
—
Letters To The Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 June 2024
Often, a keelboat could manage just two crossings a day, for a total of 15 or 20 miles; afterward, their shirts bloodied, their shoulders callused, the men were rewarded with a fillee—a cup of whiskey chased by a cup of river water.
—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for callus
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Degrease The Kitchen If frying bacon or green tomatoes has left your range hood and cooktop with caked on grease, Windex can cut through it.
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The kids aren’t going to remember that mom made the birthday cakes herself.
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The Seahawks ring, large as a child’s fist, is encrusted with 20 carats of white diamonds and blue sapphires.
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Lastly, the new Air Jordan 4 Retro OG style is set to come with a silver Jumpman hangtag that’s encrusted with diamond-like gems.
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Much of that growth has been concreted at the very top.
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Rogan compared the experience of becoming famous as a child to concrete.
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Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
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Right wing had long been a problem position, with No 10s such as Xavi Simons often being forced wide to plug a hole, or orthodox wingers failing to gel with the uber-attacking full-back Denzel Dumfries.
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After that, freeze credit, file an identity theft report and remove exposed personal information from the web.
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Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images With the Federal Reserve electing to keep interest rates frozen again this week – its fourth such pause in 2026 – savers can comfortably take the time to shop around for a savings account that works for them and their goals.
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Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.
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His potential return could function like a crucial trade deadline acquisition, injecting vital offensive production into the lineup as the Blue Jays aim to solidify their playoff contention, though caution will be exercised given his injury history.
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Paraguay’s defensive mindset was only solidified three minutes into first-half stoppage time when their captain was sent off with a red card.
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Anna, her hauteur hardening like a protective shell, is aghast.
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As patterns become clear and predictable, the organization hardens them into deterministic rules.
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“Callus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callus. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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