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tear

[teer] / tɪər /






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In the past, tear gas was needed to quell over-excited crowds, such as when Great Britain came to tour in 1992.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the film works to wring out a tear, occasionally squeezing too hard, but earning several sad sighs of recognition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

This puts extra strain on the neck and can cause pain or early wear and tear of the neck joints.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The frame of "Young Woman at the Well" was slightly damaged, while "the canvas of 'Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano' had a tear," Bessone said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

She paused to wipe away a pretend tear, and then resumed her boasting.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

As you cook the salmon and vegetables, whether it’s on a cast-iron griddle or a hot grill, stay close so you can keep turning the skewers and brushing them with your homemade tare.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022

Teriyaki is the most well-known style of tare, a Japanese marinade or glaze frequently paired with grilled meats, and you’ll make a version of it for the chicken.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2019

He also had to deal with the unfortunate spoilage of his prized tare, the fermented, umami-rich sauce that Chiou had been nurturing since the neighborhood restaurant debuted last year.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019

Each bag includes the tare weight to ensure you pay only for what you are buying.

From Slate ● May 7, 2018

By such lessons did I become acclimated to scientific calculation in even the meanest function, so learning the secrets of tare and gross.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

"You can morph one into the other without tearing it, because they both have one hole. That hole is a topological feature."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The attacks, he said, were "tearing Kyiv apart".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Backup pilots safely landed the plane in Saudi Arabia after it dived at one point near the speed of sound, tearing away part of its rudder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ellison snapped up the palatial pad back in 2021 for $80 million with the intention of tearing it down.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

He went tearing out of the barn and was gone before Daddy’s words were done bouncing off the walls.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

It is a job he has been doing for almost three months, since a huge wildfire tore through this landscape in July.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

After a few jaw-clenching, squinty-eyed minutes—and after stuffing the CrossWave so hard it practically tore off my trunks—I eased off the throttle, exhausted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

They also fed more frequently and for longer stretches as they tore apart, pulled at, manipulated, and consumed the carcasses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

For three quarters, Allen looked nothing like the devastating double-threat quarterback who tore through the first two games, wins over Houston and Detroit in which Buffalo scored a combined 77 points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Absently he tore the last bit of dulse in two.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

These occur when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole and experiences such extreme gravitational forces that it is torn apart.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dozens of fire-damaged homes, which were simple, one-storey buildings in Nir Oz, have now been torn down, leaving just rows of the reinforced concrete safe rooms, which failed to keep people safe.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chimi Lhamo, an ethnic Tibetan makeup artist working in one of Shangri-La’s hundreds of costume photography studios, is torn about the tourist waves that have transformed her hometown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Torn,” which features lyrics around a mother who is watching her family get torn apart, will be the closing track of “Carnaval de Luz,” which will be released Nov. 13.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

When you’ve torn each other up and somehow still have that unchanging bond.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith


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