molted

past tense of molt

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Recent Examples of molted Our fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction. Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • An investigation by corruption specialist lawyer Natalia Volosin, published in Noticias magazine, sheds further light on businessman Leonardo Scatturice's dealings.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • How does this series shed new light on the day-to-day lives of deaf people?
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Marrow also peeled back the curtain on how Louisville balances its revenue-sharing budget.
    Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Now that the dust has settled, a handful of insiders peeled back the curtain on the meeting that marked the beginning of the end.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Molted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molted. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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