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Alongside this complexity, Warsh also appears to be looking to hone the Fed’s strategy for communicating with the public.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Prince Mohammed told the group that the better strategy was to hone skills in the U.S. before coming back to the kingdom, the young graduate, named Abdulrahman Alfozan, recalled in a recently released podcast interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
An actor's voice "is the result of years of rigorous training and apprenticeship" to hone talent, Yuko Sasaki, executive director of the Japan Actors Union, told AFP ahead of the ruling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s a lifestyle not entirely dissimilar to the rigorous training of an ice-skating prodigy, putting in the work at all hours to hone their skill.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Its popularity was analogous to the way artists flocked to Paris in the 1920s to hone their craft under the tutelage of the masters there.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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And he is now just two appearances away from equalling Peter Shilton's mark of 125 international appearances as he hones in on becoming England's most capped player ever.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Even as Cursor hones in on Composer, the company’s model-agnostic platform remains a key selling point, according to Ram Bala, professor of AI and analytics at Santa Clara University.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
Even as China hones its formal sanctions toolkit, it still turns to informal methods when legal and political justification is thin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Brotherhood further hones that portrayal by writing John as a man making the same uneasy bargain to reengage with strangers as the rest of us.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
It stood between the stables, for fifty hones, and the cowsheds.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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This season, we have seen those principles, honed at Porto, become the basis of an impressive Swansea side.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
After a brief period in her homeland, he was raised in north London and honed his craft on pirate radio.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He then secured a position at Canterbury, where he honed his skills at cutting stone and came to appreciate the grand tradition of which he was now a part.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
That’s partly because so much of who Gaby is has been carefully honed by the writers and Williams to align with the actor’s voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
He ignored the scents that had come into the room with him, dismissed the scents that he could safely ignore, honed in on the smell of the thing he had come to find.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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They are a party honing their messaging before the next general election.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Contrarian deals are often made after years of honing one’s intuition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The 19-year-old, sporting a budding beard, usually operates from home, filling lulls by watching the TV show Criminal Minds or honing his drone-flying skills on a simulator.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
If only “HOTD” had put as much effort into honing its characters’ internal battles as it did depicting bloody conflicts across Westeros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
I spent three years at Miss Preston’s honing my combat skills, refining my manners, getting an education.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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