callus
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Each adds another layer of callus over the public conscience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I want to build up a callus of hard work,” Fisch said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
The cells formed a tumorlike tissue known as callus that could then be coaxed to grow into a seedling.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2023
Will I have to ask for more time spent on that callus?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
Arya chewed her lip as she walked along on feet grown hard with callus.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Jobs that “put calluses on your hands—those are the only jobs I’ve ever had.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
"Our final, clear polish could be put over any manicure or even bare nails, which could help people with calluses on their fingertips, too. So, it has both a cosmetic and lifestyle benefit," explains Desai.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
While the country awaits Georgia’s first loss — we’re probably going to be waiting quite a while given the Bulldogs’ soft schedule — a collection of fascinating teams are ascendant and building calluses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Golfing experts confirmed the former president is wearing the tape properly and that golfers routinely use it to avoid blisters and split calluses.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
They were working men, with steel and asbestos in their lungs and years’ worth of hard labor under their calluses and cracked fingernails.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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His arms and face were tanned from perpetually toiling in the sun, his fingers callused.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
The miners dug hundreds of feet deep with shovels and their bare, callused hands.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
“I’m afraid, everyone is afraid,” he said, clasping his hands, toughened and callused by years of fighting and manual labor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
By 9, Joe’s small hands were callused and stinging.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2021
He extended his large, callused hand, and before I could leave the office, he gave me one last order.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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They are, therefore, stratified in a callusing bed where moisture and temperature can be controlled.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
If left as long as this in the callusing bed most of the scion buds will have started and formed white shoots.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Conifer grafts are often placed in a grafting case for rapid callusing.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
In the callusing bed we should endeavor to hasten and perfect the union of stock and scion as much as possible while delaying the starting of the buds and the emission of the roots.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Apparently what occurred was that the grafting wax and paraffin which was coated over the scion melted and penetrated the union, like that much kerosene or penetrating oil, and prevented callusing.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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