parein a sentence
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The candidate promised to pare the deficit.
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pare potatoes (source)pare = peel (cut off the outer skin--possibly with a knife rather than a peeler)
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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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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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So easily those spells had risen in my mind, the ones that would let me cut his desires from him, like paring rot from fruit.† (source)
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The hemlock root I had minced finely with a paring knife.† (source)
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It would be like trying to stick a paring knife into a truck tire.† (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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The neighborhood guards Pare armed, needless to say.† (source)
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Inter pares.† (source)
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Jab him with the 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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Nothing helped when the time came to pare away the rotten flesh.† (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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"I'm leaving tomorrow for a sales conference in Portland," Mr. Powell explained, peeling an onion over the sink with a small paring knife.† (source)
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That and the fact my body seems to be completely numb, though to look at me, at the leg that the 60 mph asphalt exfoliant has pared down to the bone, I should be in agony.† (source)
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