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shave

[sheyv] / ʃeɪv /


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Then he responded with his own question: “We don’t shave anymore?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

When her hair began falling out during chemotherapy she decided to shave her head, but wanted to make it as positive an experience as possible for her children.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Drought and record heatwaves across France this summer will shave 0.1 percent off the country's economic growth this year, adding to the heavy human toll, the finance ministry said Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

One of the goals of the merger is to shave costs by consolidating overlapping business divisions and back-office functions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Old Hirsch will shave his beard, and they will both dress as workers, like Max did.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

A more than $1-a-gallon run-up since January shaves about 5% off her earnings for most journeys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

In the capital Kabul, a 25-year-old barber lamented that "there are a lot of restrictions" which go against his young clients' preference for closer shaves.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

She shaves his face, massages his head, slices apples and apricots for his breakfast each morning.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

Sonoda no longer shaves on the days Yamamoto starts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024

The next man follows with the clippers and shaves my head clean in five quick passes.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

He shaved his head and spent most weekends skating Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, listening to hardcore punk and Joy Division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The new name plaques adorn the wall of a long corridor and are displayed next to many images of prisoners dressed in striped shirts with shaved heads.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

A platter of summer tomatoes, tuna-belly conserva, shaved onion, and punchy olives arrives where it cannot possibly fit.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

With his head shaved and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit, Farinacci appeared in court where his bail was raised from $1 million to $2 million.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I'm looking for someone. A boy about my age with a shaved head. He was a monk-in-training. His name is Pong. Have you seen him?”

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Who knows where the trend began, but I remain clean shaven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Washbourne, 40, is described as white, male, about 5ft 6ins, slim, with brown hair and clean shaven.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

The Sheriff’s Department is looking for the suspect, who was described as a Black male, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 180 pounds and with a shaven head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Mr. Bankman-Fried, 32, was in the courtroom, clean shaven and wearing a loose fitting brown jail uniform.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

Near at hand was a flower-garden and a clipped hedge silver-netted, and beyond that grey shaven grass pale with dew-drops.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Schick revolutionized shaving with injector razors and multiblades in a single cartridge, slugging it out in the marketplace for decades with rival shaving giant Gillette.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

On the window ledge sit the manly accoutrements of shaving: a Barbasol aerosol canister and a safety razor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

While her least favourite of the sprint disciplines, that continues to involve winters focused on shaving time off her 60m best, which she again lowered this season to 7.04 - the eighth-fastest worldwide this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Cancer has a way of taking things you never realized you’d grieve,” she wrote alongside a video of the parents shaving Whimsy’s head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

His shaving things sat on the shelf in the bathroom alongside the same aftershave she remembered from years earlier.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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