skin
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It’s not just about attracting casual fans to watch the icon whose face adorns everything from airplanes to skin care products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Some children had scabies, fungal infections or bacterial skin infections alongside suspected measles and malaria.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
In his final days, Kate could only touch him while wearing the rubber gloves after he contracted the highly contagious skin infestation, external at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The cornea contains large amounts of collagen, a structural protein also found in skin, cartilage, tendons, and other tissues.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
She put it behind Fin-Kedinn for him to lean against, then curled up beside him on a reindeer skin.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Although ghosts of a sort do eventually appear, they are in human skins and human-scaled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
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
Once Spurge was shut up in the guest room and the whole house was in shadow, Werfel went and sat next to one of his skins.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Sven Botman: Like Thiaw, could not cope with Calvert-Lewin and was skinned so easily for Leeds' second goal.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Along with the distinctive doors, the vehicle was skinned with stainless steel—like today’s Tesla Cybertruck—because DeLorean thought Detroit was shortchanging customers with vehicles that would rust too quickly, Stone says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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
Its leaves are like umbrellas shielding the delicate skinned, daffodil-colored fruit from the sun.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
I just took her porch steps in one leap and was off, not stopping till I ended up with skinned knees and elbows in the alley beside the post office.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
I decided to relisten to the audiobook recently because my friend June Leaf reminded me about the skinning part.
From New York Times ● May 16, 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
Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
