flaking

present participle of flake

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Microscopy analysis revealed telltale slice marks, scrape marks, and chop marks, as well as evidence of cremation, peeling, fractures, and human tooth marks.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In their first game of this season, West Ham showed far more weaknesses when defending corners against a physical Sunderland side who had six players in the six-yard box, with four running towards the near post, one blocking a defender and Dan Ballard peeling away to the back post.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Women are less likely to build long-term wealth through business ownership without profitability and scaling strategies in their business.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • However, while the experiments proved that DPPs can be tuned and stabilized, scaling this approach into fully functional devices will take time.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Flaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flaking. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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