- plural of hone.
hones
Example Sentences
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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
The 2022 release hones in on an industrial-sounding synth, marked with sporadic, sci-fi sounds all while Komai energetically shouts in the background.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025
But it’s in solitude where he hones the focus and intent to make a baseball go where he demands it to go with frightening consistency.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024
There was the moment of intermingling with a noise like thunder, the spectacle of broken lances sailing in the air while hones pawed that dement before they went down backward.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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