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pare
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    The hemlock root I had minced finely with a paring knife.†  (source)
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    It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked.†  (source)
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    Sethe touched the fruit and picked up the paring knife.†  (source)
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    In one hand, I remember, he carried a green apple, a small paring knife in the other.†  (source)
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    So I took the apple and pared it, and I got the peel off in one piece.†  (source)
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    Di giorno e troppo caldo, e così pare che di notte si sta bene, e a letto si gela.†  (source)
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    Inter pares.†  (source)
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    I looked at my hands, thinking about all they had said, paring it down wearily.†  (source)
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    He was hungry, and his meager diet had pared his body down to a feral scrawn of gristle and bone, but he seemed to be in reasonably good health.†  (source)
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    "We should pare the charges down before we vote," Hemme said.†  (source)
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    (Leans over table as if wanting to embrace it) (Mrs. Webb faces up, pares potatoes) I can't look at everything hard enough†  (source)
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    Then he tucked the point of his paring knife under the envelope's flap, slit it from corner to corner, and gazed within.†  (source)
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    Yet even this pared-back phone, this phone stripped of so much of its potential, allowed him to access Nadia's separate existence, at first hesitantly, and then more frequently, at any time of day or night, allowed him to start to enter into her thoughts, as she toweled herself after a shower, as she ate a light dinner alone, as she sat at her desk hard at work, as she reclined on her toilet after emptying her bladder.†  (source)
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