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as in cheated
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
got his revenge on the dirty swindler who had skinned him
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as in whipped
to defeat by a large margin
we simply got skinned in the interoffice softball tournament
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Recent Examples of skinned
Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Wu takes attacks personally and is thin skinned, dismissing the criticism rather than trying to learn something from her mistakes.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Two Cornell students hunted and skinned a 120-pound bear inside a residence hall kitchen over the weekend, university personnel said.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
First introduced to the Great White Way in 2003, Wicked is a a prequel to The Wizard of Oz that examines how the green-skinned Elphaba (Erivo) became the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as the sorceress Glinda’s (Grande) trajectory to becoming known as the Good Witch.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Wu takes attacks personally and is thin skinned, dismissing the criticism rather than trying to learn something from her mistakes.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
The blunt comment by the esteemed brother of director Doug Liman certainly could be skinned over the evolving battle between MPRM Communications and 42West now that its officially gone to the courts.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Two Cornell students hunted and skinned a 120-pound bear inside a residence hall kitchen over the weekend, university personnel said.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skinned
Adjective
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Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Keep your eyes peeled for wild horses grazing along the ridgelines.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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McCarty could see the man pounding on the doors and windows, and the 6-year-old watched on as a fire engine and ambulance peeled onto the street.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The tension resurfaced when her sister discovered her partner had cheated again and asked to stay at the poster’s home with both children.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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Every town has its nostalgic spots—ice cream shops, deli counters, old-school diners—that seem to have cheated time.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
18 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Cherry already has a soft spot for Biancani, never mind the grueling conditioning, including countless hours of running that whipped the Hornets into shape.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Ovechkin gathered the puck on his forehand, quickly turned it over to his backhand and whipped it into the net.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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On a plywood bookshelf above the twin bed sat a dozen teddy bears of varying age and quality, some patchy and furless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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An all-star cast plucked from different corners of the pop culture firmament leads Ryan Murphy's All's Fair, a Hulu legal drama about female divorce attorneys who open their own practice.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
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Such is life in Marthaland, where homemaking tasks are plucked from the realm of everyday drudgery and elevated to a pure pursuit of excellence.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But the top 20 pieces — 10 free, 10 behind our STAT+ paywall — are more interesting and revealing than that list, with each story adding important nuance and personal voices to debates often flattened into pro or con.—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
31 Dec. 2025
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Confronting such dramatic mutations requires interpretive and historical learning and the willingness to perceive politics as a dense field of meanings, not something to be flattened into numbers or variables on a graph.—
Jason Blakely,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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During one meeting of the school board in the state's capital of Augusta Wednesday, two women undressed to protest the state's policies that allow biological males to compete in girls sports and use girls locker rooms.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The tub, shower, and vanity share the natural light streaming through the undressed window.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinned. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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