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husk

noun as in covering, case

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It hints at the trend of hedge fund managers buying local publications to drain them until they’re husks of their former selves.

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Lifting weights, I’m just trying to keep this old husk limber and I wanna be able to have a healthy aging.

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Sir Geoff's academic work saw him invent the barley abrasion process - which involves deliberately damaging the protective husk of grains to speed up the process of malting.

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MK suggested they create perfumes from fermented chocolate husks, and before they left Bangkok, he gave them several bags of cacao husks.

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He is a shriveled husk devoid of empathy.

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