as in shed
to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside
a soap that promises to help me exfoliate all that dry, flaky skin I've apparently been carrying around
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Each branch is fully coated for a realistic look of snow, and shoppers say the flocking won’t shed throughout the season.—
Shea Simmons,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Plants shed their leaves and prepare for winter dormancy, giving way to new life.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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Keep your eyes peeled for other seasonal fragrances to be released throughout the holiday season, including Cozy Winter Cottage.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Physical pieces can still be peeled from packaging and scanned into the app, while digital pieces appear automatically with certain app orders.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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The team, based mainly at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, devised a method to remove the extra chromosomes by mimicking natural cell division in a way that causes one set of 23 to be discarded, leaving a functional egg cell.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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The aspects of Dalton’s theory that disagreed with reality were discarded, just as the aspects of Democritus’s ideas that didn’t align with reality were not kept as part of the theory.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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About 300 to 400 linear feet (91 to 122 meters) of a coastal slope sloughed off, falling about 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) toward the ocean, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Dirt, body oil, and dead skin cells sloughed off during bathing also contribute to this sticky residue.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Exfoliated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exfoliated. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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