groomed

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But despite being groomed for three decades to take over, for some, he just wasn't a convincing choice to steward South Korea's biggest company, and the economic hopes of a nation.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

“Individuals who lived, fed, groomed and patrolled together for years became targets of lethal attacks on the basis of their new group membership,” the authors reported recently in the journal Science.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

“It’s groomed out just like man-made snow,” Wilson said.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026

He attended the Officers Training School, seen as less prestigious than the Pakistan Military Academy that has usually groomed the country’s army chiefs, according to Basit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

He was a young, neatly groomed African American man with short hair—clean-shaven, medium frame and build—wearing bright, clean prison whites.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson