peeled
Example Sentences
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Gail took over the company’s financials, swiftly gaining the trust of their creditors and negotiating payment plans that kept the business running until they had peeled themselves out of short-term debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
This year the last thin layer of recourse peeled off.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
And then watching that kind of crumble, those layers are peeled apart based off of what happens to her and what she sees happen to her friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She peeled the roots of wild geraniums and baked them in hot coals.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
