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Recent Examples of shin
Alice Gainer, CBS News, 14 May 2025
Try to keep your shins vertical and focus on keeping your knees in line with your toes.
—Hilary Achauer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
Jump your feet forward so your knees are below your hips, shins off the floor.
—Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
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Noun
In the photo, Ventura is wearing a shorter dress, and a bruise could be seen on her right shin.
—Alice Gainer, CBS News, 14 May 2025
Try to keep your shins vertical and focus on keeping your knees in line with your toes.
—Hilary Achauer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
This length is most often used by mountaineers due to the use of taller boots that can rub against your calves and shins more dramatically.
—Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
Jump your feet forward so your knees are below your hips, shins off the floor.
—Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shin
Noun
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With two bullets in the thighs, and another bullet in his arm, one young man was screaming in pain.—
Anas Baba,
NPR,
6 July 2025
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The bullet hit that victim in her left thigh, the bullet exiting then lodging in her right thigh.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Scheana Shay tries to skin him and make him into a fake Birkin.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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As Perez attempted to skin the cat, Rhea Ripley rose from the dead and tossed Perez into a pile of ladders.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Noun
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That was in spite of two three-week injury lay-offs due to issues with her right calf and left ankle in November and February.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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The video then shows images of the moose reunited with her calves.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
29 June 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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Harvest corn by pulling the ear downward and twisting to break the shank below without breaking the parent stalk.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2025
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Video of the shank circulated across social media, garnering hundreds of thousands of views in mere hours.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Shin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shin. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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