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Recent Examples of preenWhile many of the viral videos show the kids palling around and preening, the former squad members say they were often pushed too far.—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Apr. 2025 Location The placement of a birdbath is important, because a bird that is bathing or that has just bathed and is preening is vulnerable to predators.—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2025 By coincidence, Emhoff spoke to Georgetown Law School students shortly before a preening Trump announced Willkie Farr’s surrender on social media.—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 Nearly 10 inches of ground clearance and torque aplenty allow the G 580 to scale a 45-degree incline and ford a depth of almost three feet—true off-road chops that let ambitious owners do more than preen at the Equinox valet.—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for preen
Handlers at the 2024 National Dog Show Presented by Purina spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about getting different breeds ready for the big event and the amount of primping required.
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Marina Watts,
People.com,
28 Nov. 2024
Photographed by Clémence Polès The next couple of hours felt like a rom-com montage—a bunch of girls playing, primping, and posing for pictures.
Messi, at 35, led his country to glory against France, winning soccer’s ultimate prize in a pulsating match that finished 3-3 after extra time and had to be settled by a nerve-wracking penalty shootout.
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Patrick Smith,
NBC News,
19 Dec. 2022
If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity.
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Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
26 Aug. 2020
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