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boned

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past tense of bone

as in dressed

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Ben-Gvir, dressed in a white shirt and white kippah, speaks halting English.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
That first recreation starts with Fielder and Seyfried’s conversation, cuts to the recreation itself, and continues with Fielder talking to the Seyfried in a makeup chair, getting dressed for the role.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026

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Last year, Abrams had delicately cleaned the tombstone of Mary Bailey, who died in 1852 at just 21 years old.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
And the service is unparalleled, including bathrooms that are cleaned after every use—our own houses aren’t that tidy.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026

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Four of the five Knicks starters stayed at home, and Mikal Bridges made the trip to Canada only to watch his reserves get eviscerated in a 148-98 rout by the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
In that, both teams played their best players and Houston’s defensive line eviscerated the Panthers’ offensive line.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2026

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Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
In that moment, walking through room after room of marble and silk and silver, all of it extracted from illiterate workers in the fields and fishing boats on the horizon, the reasons for the Protestant Reformation became fully clear to me.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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