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shiner

[shahy-ner] / ˈʃaɪ nər /


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Depp said a photo Heard’s team had procured from the Orient Express Facebook page — which didn’t show the shiner — looked “like my eyes have been Photoshopped.”

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2022

With a welt near his ear and a shiner under one eye, umpire Junior Valentine worked the plate right on schedule.

From Seattle Times Sep. 14, 2021

“The truth is that here as the poor people that we are, we don’t understand that,” José Lopez, 81, a shoe shiner in San Salvador, said before the national Bitcoin adoption.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2021

The best we can tell, a 19-year-old African American shoe shiner named Dick Rowland tripped as he entered the elevator in the Drexel Building.

From Washington Post May 28, 2021

A miner, shoe shiner, or a railroad liner?

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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