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Recent Examples of defoliateFresh buds may also be consumed if trees are severely defoliated.—Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024 The objectives were primarily to defoliate trees and thus uncover enemy troop concentrations and to destroy crops destined for enemy stomachs.—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024 The symptoms are very distinctive: the stems of the plants will turn black, there will be black spots on the leaves, and the most distinctive symptom is the plant will defoliate in sections.—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024 Dow manufactured napalm, the chemical weapon used by the military to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam while severely burning and killing substantial numbers of civilians.—TIME, 10 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for defoliate
For anyone under the impression that dogs are being skinned, perish the thought.
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Rosalie R. Radomsky,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
Almond is the star of the show here, in milk, oil, extract, and protein formats—delivering fatty acids and omega 9s to skin for improved softness and nourishment.
Strawberry Cardamom Frozen Yogurt with Balsamic Swirl Makes 1 quart
INGREDIENTS
1 pound fresh strawberries, hulled
1¼ cup plain Greek yogurt
1/3 cup honey
¾ teaspoon ground cardamom
2 to 3 tablespoons balsamic glaze
DIRECTIONS
Place the strawberries, yogurt, honey and cardamom in a blender.
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Laura Mclively,
The Mercury News,
27 May 2024
Rice kernels are then dried and hulled by machines before they're packed for sale in factories, lined from floor to ceiling with sacks of rice.
The Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort, for example, lets guests husk coconuts, take ukulele and hula lessons, and rent GoPro cameras as part of its $50 daily resort fee.
The upper fangs sank into Wyatt’s left cheek, just below his eye socket, the lower into his top lip and right nostril, flaying his face in four separate places.
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Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
The massive main compartment flays open completely near the back panel for easy packing and unpacking, with several other zippered access points for stuffing or pulling layers out on-the-go.
Instead of Black life maimed, denuded of dignity, and degraded, each portrait that makes up I, Narcissus is a study of delicious glamour.
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Essence,
Essence,
5 Nov. 2024
Working with community leaders, Zhou's efforts have resulted in a significant decrease of ceremonial releases, denuding of wild populations and mistreated animals.
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Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
17 Sep. 2024
The constitutional amendment also stripped Levine Cava of her previous power as head of elections for Miami-Dade and the chief financial steward of the county — authority now held by an independent elections supervisor, tax collector and comptroller.
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Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
In 2018, his first administration sought to strip the status from Salvadorans, on the grounds that the earthquake that had prompted the U.S. to grant it back in 2001 was long past, even if other crises had since occurred.
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