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

The band hones their act with tiny club gigs, and by New Year’s Eve, lands a support slot on the bill with Blue Öyster Cult.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

As with most geniuses, he was complicated, and “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s long-in-the-works biopic, hones in on that knottiness in its focus on Bernstein’s marriage to Chilean-born actress Felicia Montealegre.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

This hones in on an idea that has been around for centuries and it's fun.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023

There was the moment of intermingling with a noise like thunder, the spectacle of broken lances sailing in the air while hones pawed that dement before they went down backward.

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