skin
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A multinational study found that people taking these drugs were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment, a condition in which the nail separates from the skin underneath it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Seattle-based freelance travel journalist said he relies on the travel-sized bottles for much of his day-to-day skin care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Honey Ross was raised in Hampstead, north London and is known as a feminist campaigner calling for respect for women regardless of their size, shape or skin colour.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
This is the soft layer of fat immediately below the skin that can be "pinched."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
And even from a distance, Clare could see that her skin had gone the color of his tail—a silvery pallor that seemed to mean something very bad.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The menu includes salt-and-pepper chicken skins with sweet-and-sour sauce and something called the Viet Dip, a sandwich served with a little cup of pho jus.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Because the skins retain biological material, parchment can preserve genetic clues alongside the words written on its surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The light-bodied red, Passeggiata, he explained, was a rosé gone wrong when winemakers forgot to remove the grapes’ skins at the correct time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
After living inside these characters’ skins for so many years, what’s it like to be done playing them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
But first she changed from the rabbit skins to the dress-cloth.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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I do like the Trailseeker’s front corners, skinned with dense, injection-molded plastic over sheet steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
His family wrote in a tribute: "Our beautiful soft skinned, beautiful long eye lashed boy with a cheeky charming infectious smile that touched everyone's hearts left this dimension early this morning in my arms."
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
It was her husband returning from the day's hunt, a large plastic bag in hand containing a skinned seal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
A magnificent hummus, silky from skinned chickpeas, can stand alone in its glory.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
The dolphin was cold and a leprous gray-white now in the starlight and the old man skinned one side of him while he held his right foot on the fish’s head.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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I don’t actually know what a Nappa is, but clearly Genesis is skinning the good kind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Recurring themes are everywhere - Daizen Maeda skinning James Tavernier, Kyogo Furuhashi outfoxing Rangers defenders at one end and Cameron Carter-Vickers bringing authority at the other.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
That suggests use as a trophy or lion-skin rug, rather than a simple byproduct of skinning the animal for food.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
She’s worked for three years to perfect her skinning process, and now works with a tanner who treats the skins to her liking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
The Spackle pulls himself slowly upright from where he’s skinning the fish.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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