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adj.worn-out; in shreds

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Rather than centering in on one main attraction or ecosystem, the park straddles a few radically different zones—temperate rainforest, glacier-capped peaks, and ragged Pacific coastline.

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As if teachers, books, museums, historical sites, documents and documentaries didn’t exist, and a poop-covered statue surrounded by ragged bushes and paper-bag bench warmers was the sole repository of all Civil War information.

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However, if its low-level circulation becomes shredded and ragged following its encounter with Cuba, it will be more difficult for Elsa to reorganize.

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To make it through a ragged season, the NBA relied on a point guard revival.

STEPH CURRY, CHRIS PAUL AND RUSSELL WESTBROOK REDEEMED THIS NBA SEASON. NOW COMES POSTSEASON HELL.JERRY BREWERMAY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Tucked underneath the moss-lined trunks of enormous spruce trees are two secluded campsites overlooking the ragged Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula.

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In Micheline Klagsbrun’s found-object assemblages, a slab of ragged lumber can represent a ship, or a wave that lifts such a craft above the ocean surface.

IN THE GALLERIES: A HEIGHTENED HOMAGE TO TREES AND WHAT THEY CAN TEACH USMARK JENKINSMAY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST

In one experiment, a xenobot was cut almost in two, its ragged halves opened up like a hinge.

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These plants were also the ones that looked the most ragged before the samples were taken.

MODIFIED GENES CAN DISTORT WILD COTTON’S INTERACTIONS WITH INSECTSEMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGAFEBRUARY 16, 2021SCIENCE NEWS

He could hear their dry, ragged breath, the beeping of machines, the intercession of nurses, the fear.

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Splurging on expensive skate boots isn’t the only way to get better, but if the pair you started learning with is looking ragged or doesn’t feel quite right, consider a higher-quality replacement.

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