dog-eared
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If journalism is the first draft of history, documentary filmmaking is often an overdue, dog-eared galley proof with no cover art.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
A school notebook, dusty and dog-eared, peeked from the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
He read and dog-eared a copy of Dr. Raymond DePaulo’s “Understanding Depression.”
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023
She scanned the page I had dog-eared and let out a tired sigh.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 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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