hones

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Even as China hones its formal sanctions toolkit, it still turns to informal methods when legal and political justification is thin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Kwan’s novel hones in on the ways that isolation and boredom sap vital parts of ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Brotherhood further hones that portrayal by writing John as a man making the same uneasy bargain to reengage with strangers as the rest of us.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

Fleming said what differentiates her from an agent is an agent focuses on market information while she hones in on emotion.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

It stood between the stables, for fifty hones, and the cowsheds.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White