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boning

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present participle of bone

as in cleaning

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The lid for covering food on the grill and the magnetic wall strip for knife and utensil storage lack cleaning.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Performing basic maintenance and cleaning the system shouldn’t be too difficult.

— Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 17 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 towering spire at the heart of Limoges ultimately collapsed in flames, drawing cheers from the crowd below that were captured on video.

— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
While the lack of regulation may be drawing users to prediction markets, the platform’s Wild West qualities may also prevent them from being reliable insurance proxies, Mitts argued.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

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boning (up)

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