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boning

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present participle of bone

as in cleaning

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One of Stallone's earliest gigs was cleaning the lion cages at Central Park Zoo.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Memory foam typically requires handwashing or spot cleaning instead.

— Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026

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Varga contributed costumes, props, sets and visual artwork to Gwar, which became infamous beyond the metal world for their grotesque (if good-natured) theatrics, which included disemboweling effigies of religious and political figures onstage.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Films that accompanied the curriculum also showed the Netsilik disemboweling a seal and carving up a caribou.

— Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025

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The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Arabic text from images and documents are relatively compact.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Over the past quarter century, foreign direct investment across sub-Saharan Africa has remained relatively flat—around two to three percent as a share of GDP—and most of it has gone to extracting oil, diamonds, and gold and other minerals.

— Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

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The company is drawing a line between sanctioned and unsanctioned sharing with outside safety groups at the same time the industry is, slowly, inviting those groups in.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
The collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has bought, often on impulse, everything from a Benny Andrews drawing to a miniature poodle.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2026

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boning (up)

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