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marrow

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as in pith

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Recent Examples of marrow Most wild animals are extremely lean, so hunter-gatherers crave the fat-rich parts of the body, including the marrow and liver. — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026 His new marrow engrafted quickly, and aside from some recurrent adenovirus, his recovery went remarkably well. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026 So far its marrow has been used successfully in 28 transplants, including, recently, its first pediatric patient, a 14-year-old boy. — Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Bone marrow produces red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body; white blood cells, which help fight infection; and platelets, which are essential for blood clotting. — Priya Bhardwaj, The Conversation, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for marrow

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For tight-skinned oranges, like navel and blood oranges, slice off enough from the stem and bottom end to expose the flesh, then upend the fruit and cut away the peel and pith.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Bright acidity in the midpalate supports flavors of lemon meringue, jasmine, and red grapefruit pith.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026

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The latest forecast predicts the center will pass roughly 115 to 150 miles west of Kauai, close enough that any additional eastward shifts in the track could bring stronger winds and greater impacts, particularly to Kauai, the hurricane center said.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
The center makes the protection calls, and often, zone runs cut vertically toward the center.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

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Yarbo later acknowledged the core technical findings and began rolling out fixes.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
But the core four aren’t the only transplants from Woodsboro, as Ghostface soon rears its ugly head, directly targeting them and whomever else is caught up in their orbit.

— Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026

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One manifestation of that shift is a Holiday Inn Express ad campaign that ran for more than a decade beginning in 1998 and showed ordinary people completing complex tasks such as brain surgery that were far outside their professional expertise.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
The dropping/suspension was the beginning of the end, or at least the most public manifestation of the beginning of the end.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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