flesh
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Hachadourian says some blooms smell like dog feces and others like rotting flesh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Corpse flowers bloom for just 24 to 48 hours, and once opened, they reek of gym socks, rotten eggs and decaying flesh … or, well, a corpse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Perhaps he’ll flesh out his views a bit more, but don’t count on a major reveal.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
I dashed for the door, then stopped, my flesh crawling.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
That earlier book floated an eye-catching thesis that Mr. Mandelbaum now fleshes out fully: that U.S. foreign policy is, indeed, distinctive, being “unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Treasury Department fleshes out the minute details in President Biden’s signature climate bill.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Like Amy Adams as a fish-out-of-water Disney princess in “Enchanted,” Robbie takes an archetype long dismissed as an airheaded caricature and, moment by deeply felt moment, teases and fleshes her out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
The new season also fleshes out Tina, capitalizing on the nuanced tones Colón-Zayas uses to color a personality far more expansive than a hard exterior and roughhousing humor.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2023
A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
By the 2000s, some franchises offered games that fleshed out or complemented the worlds depicted on the silver screen.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Professors Carlos Manuel Vázquez and Steve Vladeck fleshed out the theory in an important 2013 article that has only grown more relevant since.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
She doesn’t envision agents as stepping into their own fully fleshed out job titles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
From there, Farr fleshed out the rest of the season, as well as the already-announced third season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
As time progressed, Aditya became more and more fleshed out, more substantial.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The luxurious hotel complex was proposed by Washington and Tehran, and their Pakistani and Qatari mediators, for the negotiations aimed at fleshing out their preliminary agreement on ending nearly four months of war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
We’re all for peace-making, but this idea could use some fleshing out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
And as a screenwriter, it was really wonderful to precast Mikey because I was able to see her face while fleshing this character out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
With “Queer,” Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes take an abstract approach to fleshing out the intricacies of Burroughs’ work.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024
Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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