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Recent Examples of peeling
Just a day later, on October 22, Neptune retrograde slips back into numinous Pisces, peeling away illusions while blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Smaller varieties, such as baby whole potatoes and peewee potatoes, tend to have thin skins and can be boiled without peeling or cutting.
—Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
The process of peeling those layers, though, can be disorienting, particularly in a world where attempting to map the nebulousness of self is often interrupted and fragmented by the screen.
—Rachel Seo, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
The carpet is perpetually peeling.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Smaller varieties, such as baby whole potatoes and peewee potatoes, tend to have thin skins and can be boiled without peeling or cutting.
—Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
The process of peeling those layers, though, can be disorienting, particularly in a world where attempting to map the nebulousness of self is often interrupted and fragmented by the screen.
—Rachel Seo, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
The carpet is perpetually peeling.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peeling
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This seems to be the case for one dachshund caught on camera barking at the ceiling, pacing the floor, and even jumping on the couch to get closer to a pipe above its head.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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While McIlroy missed the eventual attempt, Lowry did not, ramming in a winner and turning to the crowd, pounding his chest and barking back.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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Her leadership was instrumental in scaling OpenAI from a research organization to one of the most important AI companies in the world.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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That choice drives everything else, like the equipment design, energy requirements, scaling strategy, and economics.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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But stripping also taught me how to stand firm in the face of that.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Peeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peeling. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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