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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

What follows are musical snapshots of an artist, who on the lam from himself, hones a style that will forever change the landscape of modern music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

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

When he wasn’t digging up old hones, Archie Brubaker was teaching at universities in the East.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli



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