dog-eared
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Schoenbrun has an obvious familiarity with the horror canon, and I would guess owns a dog-eared copy of “Men, Women, and Chainsaws,” Carol J. Clover’s classic book on the genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"This one changed my life," he says, pulling out a dog-eared copy of Pete Rock's They Reminisce Over You.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
All these years later, the books on my nightstand are highlighted, annotated and dog-eared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
He read and dog-eared a copy of Dr. Raymond DePaulo’s “Understanding Depression.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
But whenever they weren’t under direct orders to do something, the children sank heavily into chairs, stared listlessly out locked windows, paged through dog-eared books they’d read a hundred times before, or slept.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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