polishing

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Two of her teenage sons work polishing shoes in the town centre.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The fossil jaws showed extensive chipping, scratching, cracking, and polishing, all signs of a strong biting force.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

US tariffs and shifting trade routes are meanwhile disrupting flows through key cutting and polishing hubs.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

The “To be, or not to be” monologue came across as a rhetorical set piece that Hamlet has been polishing for ages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

He was polishing the metal clasp surrounding the snakestone, as gently and as carefully as an archaeologist on a dig, taking off the black and revealing the glittering silver beneath it.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman