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Recent Examples of defoliatePlants can defoliate all their leaves before any sign of the disease is obvious.—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 Thielen noted that the three St. Louis County wildfires were zero percent contained as of early Tuesday afternoon, and that the dry and windy conditions Tuesday and Wednesday are conducive to wildfire spread in an area heavily defoliated by the spruce budworm.—Katie Rohman, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025 This bright red insect can severely defoliate these lilies.—Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025 Affected trees can be completely defoliated, giving a wintry appearance in summer.—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for defoliate
Plus, undoing a vital world economic order his predecessors built; invading the Federal Reserve’s independence; gerrymandering congressional districts and weaponizing his Justice Department against an ex-president and a New York attorney general who skinned his hide in court.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2025
Parish skins the leg quarters — frying up the exteriors for cracklins — and smokes them before a three-hour confit.
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Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
To hull a strawberry: Grab a sharp paring knife with your dominant hand, gripping the blade with your index finger and thumb, and leave about 1 inch poking out.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
Uses include: Blend hulled seeds with oil to make homemade tahini sauce
Put them in a vegetable slaw
Sprinkle on to add an Asian twist to your recipes.
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These include thinning fabric, stretching or sagging, holes, flaying, and heavy pilling.
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Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
1 July 2025
Separating fact from invention is difficult, but there have been rumors that there was more than one murderer, the killing was drug-related and — perhaps most disturbingly — that Driscoll was either dismembered or flayed alive.
And more recently, in the throes of a homeless crisis, city staff and law enforcement have removed and denuded trees to control the conditions on the street.
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Sam Bloch
August 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
Trash burning and water shortages are a worsening blight, while the construction of upscale villas has denuded vegetation and exacerbated a perennial flooding problem.
Miley Cyrus shocked viewers by stripping down to a nude bikini top and briefs and grinding, twerking and thrusting on fellow performer Robin Thicke at the 2013 show in one of the raciest performances in MTV history.
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Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
The moratorium provision was ultimately stripped from the bill before final passage.
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Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
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