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defoliating

verb

present participle of defoliate

as in barking

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On the opposite side of the ball, he could be heard barking orders out during pick-and-roll situations, loudly letting teammates know where the ball-handler was headed.

— Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Beyond the deployment of excavators, a CCTV video report showed a search dog barking to alert a rescuer about signs of life.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026

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Pass the time shelling on its pristine beaches or swimming in the sparkling waters.

— Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
In a new report, NPR's Anas Baba and Aya Batrawy document what daily life looks like for families trapped between expanding military zones, with shelling at night, gunfire by day and nowhere safe to go.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 July 2026

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In tight spaces where a straight driver can't complete a full rotation, that elbow geometry is the difference between finishing the job and abandoning it after hurting your wrist, skinning your knuckles, and questioning your life choices.

— Omar Kardoudi March 05, New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2026
The sport, therefore, has a strong relationship with the military, with troops in such environments regularly skinning up mountains before skiing back down.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026

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Without the photonics technology that Coherent specializes in, scaling AI would not be possible, Anderson says.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
Optimus scaling challenge Recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said scaling production of the Optimus humanoid robot will be the most difficult manufacturing challenge Tesla has ever faced, as nearly every component must be built from scratch.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026

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Some Chick-fil-A accounts were hacked last month, exposing the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers, the company said this week.

— Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
Examples include Anthony Purcell, who ran a non-profit for a decade unpaid, and Stacy Bernstein, whose growing brand struggles to secure early-stage funding, exposing VCs' reluctance.

— Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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Did the grocery store place the trash can near the corn because folks were shucking with wild abandon and leaving behind a big mess?

— Josh Miller, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
These stories usually involve a woman shucking societal norms of being nice, pretty, and obedient.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

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