shiner
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Depp said a photo Heard’s team had procured from the Orient Express Facebook page — which didn’t show the shiner — looked “like my eyes have been Photoshopped.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
The best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
For decades, white and black Tulsans refused to talk about the events of May 31, 1921, when a black man who worked as a shoe shiner was accused of assaulting a white woman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
Crappie continue to improve, especially shiner and will be found in brush piles.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2019
The kids would surely call her “a shiner of apples for teacher’s dog” next.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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