pith
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Among her many dancers, I spy a nurse, an astronaut, a UPS delivery guy — even a dude in a pith helmet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
It looks pretty forthright on the page, but Mr. Isaacson skillfully teases fresh pith and resonance out of those familiar words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
This layer holds moisture, much like the pith in the center of a tree trunk.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
The last is painted on the semi-circular pith of a banana tree and is owned by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2023
Beowulf, too, looked unhappy, and began to chew on the strap of his pith helmet.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
For example, some chimpanzees chew bitter piths of the medicinal shrub Vernonia amygdalina to treat worm infections—and even detour from their normal foraging routes to seek out the plants.
From Science Magazine ● May 1, 2024
Grapefruit is used here, but if you happen on pomelos, grab a few: They’re much easier to peel and loosen from their piths.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
More tangerine wedges cook alongside the bird in the same pan, their piths softening in the sauce that lacquers the bird.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
They’ve also become a model for larger, multinational food companies, which are starting to realize that upcycling peels and piths can be good business.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017
"Yes—that's where they piths 'em," said the Tramp, quite in love with his conceit.
From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
Dickey pithed three-hit ball for seven innings as Toronto romped past Boston.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Watched to water and pithed by postal packet, Dec. 14th.
From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Leyendecker, Frank X.
He commends Parsley roots to be in greatest quantity, boiled whole, if young; but quarterred and pithed, if great and old.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
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