shave
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Then he responded with his own question: “We don’t shave anymore?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
When her hair began falling out during chemotherapy she decided to shave her head, but wanted to make it as positive an experience as possible for her children.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Drought and record heatwaves across France this summer will shave 0.1 percent off the country's economic growth this year, adding to the heavy human toll, the finance ministry said Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
“In the minor leagues, we had to shave, had to keep it low,” Heyward said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The dark circles under his eyes were darker than usual, and he had not bothered to shave.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Still, the third-fastest time in history shaves another tenth of a second off the 22-year-old's personal best and only increases the sense that she will break the record sooner rather than later.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
A sermon used to take him 10 to 15 hours to prepare; a chatbot doing first-pass research and phrasing shaves off several of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the capital Kabul, a 25-year-old barber lamented that "there are a lot of restrictions" which go against his young clients' preference for closer shaves.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Sonoda no longer shaves on the days Yamamoto starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
As I collect fist-sized, dry tree branches, Chou bends and shaves the leaves with her ax.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
The new name plaques adorn the wall of a long corridor and are displayed next to many images of prisoners dressed in striped shirts with shaved heads.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
That shaved 243,000 jobs off of employment from April through December 2025, UBS economists calculate, a period covered by Friday’s revisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A platter of summer tomatoes, tuna-belly conserva, shaved onion, and punchy olives arrives where it cannot possibly fit.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
A 5.5% decrease over two years would be shaved to 4.1%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He’d bathed, changed into fresh clothes, and even shaved for good measure.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Who knows where the trend began, but I remain clean shaven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She had spotted her son in the image, taken from above, of a sea of shaven heads belonging to men in white T-shirts sat in long, straight rows.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
And then there are the images of the migrants deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, shackled one behind the other in prison garb, their heads bowed and shaven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
Mr. Bankman-Fried, 32, was in the courtroom, clean shaven and wearing a loose fitting brown jail uniform.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Despite a recent shower, beads of sweat form above his lip and on his newly shaven head.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Schick revolutionized shaving with injector razors and multiblades in a single cartridge, slugging it out in the marketplace for decades with rival shaving giant Gillette.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Except for the part where they pluck and prune themselves into the hairlessness of a dolphin; “Love is Blind’s” Zack Goytowski and “Love Island’s” Zach Georgiou both cop to shaving their legs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Cancer has a way of taking things you never realized you’d grieve,” she wrote alongside a video of the parents shaving Whimsy’s head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
The objects, which sold for a total of £59,761, vary from a Victorian travelling shaving brush by pioneering silversmith Frances Douglas to an Imperial Russian tankard and an Edwardian jewellery box.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
He was shaving by the open window, a camel-hair jacket over his pyjamas, and I in my flannel suit and heavy shoes felt clumsy and overdressed.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
