honed
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It is a technique honed in all forms of cricket at the highest level.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The deal could be the start of a bigger move to share weaponry that Ukraine has honed during its war with Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
One of the marvels of this novel is how effortlessly such sentences land, despite being honed to perfection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Once alerted to the allegations against her, investigators seem to have honed in quickly on Zhykovych, 50, and Reut, 34, using Berezovska's phone records.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
That stage of Loomis’s life ended with World War I. At the age of twenty-nine, he enlisted in the officer’s corps, where his mathematical skills, honed at Yale, were promptly put to the test.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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