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pare
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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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    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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    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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    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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    At her suggestion, I pare off my nails with a knife.†  (source)
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    Inter pares.†  (source)
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    Jab him with the paring knife?†  (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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    Di giorno e troppo caldo, e così pare che di notte si sta bene, e a letto si gela.†  (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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    Marie did not move, but when his hand came near, she raised her paring knife and slashed him lightly where his palm would have connected.†  (source)
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    He'll undertake to torture any number of cats, if their teeth be drawn and their claws pared.†  (source)
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