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Recent Examples of shin
Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
Makhlouf wound up on the trainer’s table with his left shin wrapped in an ice pack.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
With the winter sun shinning brightly and a chilly breeze ruffling aquamarine Mediterranean waters just beyond the camp’s edge, the family soon got down to sharing a meal — traditional bread with lentils and ruby red tomatoes.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
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Noun
Omot, a Mankato native, missed summer workouts to have surgery for a stress fracture in his shin.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
Makhlouf wound up on the trainer’s table with his left shin wrapped in an ice pack.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
The levante is the easterly blow favored by windsurfers that causes heavy swells, casts apocalyptic clouds, and gives shins an unwanted microdermabrasion.
—Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
With the winter sun shinning brightly and a chilly breeze ruffling aquamarine Mediterranean waters just beyond the camp’s edge, the family soon got down to sharing a meal — traditional bread with lentils and ruby red tomatoes.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shin
Noun
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Find your next favorite accessory in Khaite’s Jane flats, Bottega’s Andiamo bag, or Acne Studios’s thigh-high boots.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
9 Nov. 2025
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Shark Watch South Australia said in their post that the bite mark on Berryman’s thigh measured over 10 inches (27 cm), which suggested the creature was around 3m long.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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All of them knew how to skin a deer.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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But, in market, each one is skinned differently and matched with unique-to-OEM services.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In recent months, however, wolves have been the center of controversy in the state’s northern cattle rangelands, where the Beyem Seyo pack killed more than 87 calves in about six months, leading state wildlife officials to euthanize four of them.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Christian Braun added 31 points, Aaron Gordon scored 20, and Jamal Murray — playing through a calf ailment — finished with 15 points and seven assists.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.—
The Christian Science Monitor,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Aug. 2022
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The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.—
DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer,
NOLA.com,
25 Jan. 2021
Noun
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Homemade knives, called shanks, are plentiful inside the prison, several inmates said.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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Start with a glass of stout and the Hungarian mushroom soup before moving on to either the pork shank, prime rib (the best in town) or Amish chicken for an entree.—
Keith Pandolfi,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Shin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shin. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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