skin
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The Reapers look awesome through cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s night-vision binoculars that make their skin glow an alien shade of green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Iron, a realistic-looking robot with electronic skin and a bionic spine, could deliver a hardware gross margin of more than 50%, said Gu, who is also vice chairman of the Guangzhou-based company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
On average, about 1 million bacteria live on every patch of skin roughly the size of a pencil eraser.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Doctors have advised that Mollie is 10,000 times more likely to get skin cancer than other children.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
After a final round of soaking and drying, he had a reasonable skin of rawhide for rope and fishing-lines.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Peeling produces a slightly cleaner finished syrup, but because the mixture will eventually be strained, leaving the skins on works perfectly well.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
Wilson got us to look at ourselves by looking far beyond ourselves in other cultures and other universes and under our own skins.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The skins contain natural oils, and garments not kept in a temperature-controlled environment -- ideally off-season in cold vaults -- can dry out and disintegrate.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
We hadn't much to move—the pot-bellied stove, cooking pans, dishes, knives and forks, a barrel of smoked salmon, a barrel of seal meat, and the six caribou skins we slept on.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
With the help of neighbors, he skinned it, securing enough meat for the entire settlement for several days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
A post-mortem of the giraffe - during which the carcass was skinned, cut up and then fed to the lions - was broadcast live online.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
And since they were at the pool and had a comb, they washed their hair and combed out two days of tangles, which hurt more than the skinned knee.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
The vegan son of a butcher, this Dick Turpin, like the prince in “Holy Grail” who just wants to sing, is more interested in doing something big and creative than in skinning rabbits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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
The tide was letting out, and he tripped, skinning his shin on the rocks.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
