shinnied

past tense of shinny

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shinnied
Verb
  • Three mules ferrying bags of cement clambered past us on their own dirt track that ran shorter and even steeper up to the top.
    Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The other six ascended to the highest office in the land as a result of the dysfunction that has made Peru a punch line in political-science circles, a sad story of ungovernability played on a loop.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Climbers set a record on May 21, when 274 of them successfully ascended Nepal's side of the mountain in a single day, officials said.
    CBS News, CBS News, 4 June 2026
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“Shinnied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shinnied. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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