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molt

verb as in shed

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“But that seriously set back the bird’s rehabilitation because now it has to go through a complete molt to be able to grow those feathers back.”

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The collective longing for a sturdier system, currently molting in tradwife TikToks and behind the paywall of Andrew Tate’s Hustlers University, is supported by a scaffolding of legitimate critique.

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Which pollutants stick, and which ones molt away?

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Yes, a man captured the way independent women prize their freedom more than having to deal with a man that’s always there “molting,” as Lois puts it.

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Versatile and resilient, the lobster survives by molting, shedding its skin and growing into a new, bigger shell.

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