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Recent Examples of dog-eared My esteemed coworkers in Vulture’s book Slack, in fact, suggested that copies of The Secret of Secrets should come pre-wrinkled and dog-eared, with salt stains and sand in the pages. Emily Heller, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025 My copies of these books are now dog-eared to death and as appropriately stained as favorite kitchen tools. Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 My esteemed coworkers in Vulture’s book Slack, in fact, suggested that copies of The Secret of Secrets should come pre-wrinkled and dog-eared, with salt stains and sand in the pages. Emily Heller, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025 Sometimes they’ve been torn, smudged, folded or dog-eared. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025 My copies of these books are now dog-eared to death and as appropriately stained as favorite kitchen tools. Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 Novel as the experience is for her, the spookiness surrounding it is as familiar and dog-eared as scripture: creepy nuns, ominous robed figures, lots of cheap jump scares. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024 Tampa Bay is still a very good team, even if a bit dog-eared around the edges of its elite personnel. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eared
Adjective
  • But Spencer said replacing old, dilapidated buildings with newer ones could also put the district in a better position to compete with charter schools.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
  • That made staying in Oakland untenable for the franchise, which played its final season in the dilapidated stadium last year.
    W.G. Ramirez, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • What’s a neglected part of your ME—your health, learning, or joy?
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But the area where these cuts will be felt most acutely is with respect to elder abuse, which is already a neglected area of health care and social services.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Set in the year 3333 on a desolate alien world, players take on the role of the Swordsman, a somewhat blank slate character with minimalist features clad in a tattered cloak.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
  • And then, in close-up, a bulldozer turns over rubble, and a family photograph is glimpsed in the debris, a tattered symbol of what has been lost.
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 25 May 2025

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“Dog-eared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eared. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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