husk

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Baker’s Indigenous and German heritage inform her three large abstract collage hangings, created using synthetic turf animated by acrylic paint, yarn and a variety of natural materials, including corn husk, willow, buffalo hide and buckskin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

If you can’t, leave before you are reduced to a soulless husk of the eager, happy person who walked into that chamber a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The paper survives as a husk, but the institution that became one of the cathedrals of world journalism is gone.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2026

"A white dwarf is the leftover husk of a star that has finished fusing its hydrogen," said Burgasser.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

Mary and her guests plan to visit Richmond in the morning; the burned-out husk of a city has become a tourist attraction.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly