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flaking



NOUN
exfoliation
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Most users who reported shedding also experienced other scalp symptoms, including itching, redness or flaking skin.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Before the hosts can begin flaking it, however, the show pauses to consider why Americans eat so little fish compared with people in Japan.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

It appeared to London that the women thought she was flaking on their plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Across half one cheek and well down her neck, her flesh was stiff and dead, the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stony to the touch.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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