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honed

[hohnd] / hoʊnd /










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Honed by a creative team that includes deaf artists Frank, director of ASL Michelle Banks, and scenic designer Ethan Sinnott, this “Music Man” imagines a River City that’s no mere huckster’s patsy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Résumé Shows Snowden Honed Hacking Skills In 2010, while working for a contractor, Edward J. Snowden learned to be a hacker.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2013

In Germany, an Unlikely Art Hub Honed by Enthusiasm Ingrid Mössinger has helped turn the industrial city of Chemnitz into a art center.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012

Honed to intellectual sharpness, it dwelt quietly upon a theme that has long dominated the President's thinking: peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Honed Sr—After such delay, though not owing to any negligence on my Part, I am ashamed to send you ye following accompt, without first making great apologies for not executing ye Commands sooner.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose




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