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“In the minor leagues, we had to shave, had to keep it low,” Heyward said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Water levels along the Rhine—which carries around 6% of Germany’s total freight—have fallen to record lows, with economists warning the disruption could shave as much as 0.3 percentage point from German economic growth this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Using specially designed ultra-long-haul Airbus planes, Qantas expects to shave about four hours off the current journey time.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

If we take the 30-year loan and make one extra payment a year, and apply that to the principal, we will shave eight years off the life of the loan.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Lurvy went to shave and put on his plaid shirt and his purple necktie.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

International Monetary Fund research suggests that a sustained 10% increase in oil prices shaves 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point off global growth the following year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

The 37-year-old millionaire has also posted images of hundreds of inmates, their head shaves, in orange uniforms being moved to a new mega-prison, echoing moves by El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.

From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025

His agent, Scott Boras, is the best in the business, and he doesn’t give hometown discounts or anything else that shaves numbers off the bottom line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

Unless polling shows that he shaves a point or so off of their own races, in which case they’ll wave him off.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

In the morning, as the Doctorita shuffles around in her bathrobe and Nino Carlitos shaves with his buzzing razor, I wonder if I’ll miss them.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

For me, that has meant chicken with scallions and frozen ginger cubes; shaved corn with poblano and onion; butternut squash with thyme and shallots; grated tomato with basil and garlic.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

With his head shaved and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit, Farinacci appeared in court where his bail was raised from $1 million to $2 million.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

He shaved it off, he told me, because maintaining it was too much trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The mediocre headline increase comes with a big caveat: A bigger U.S. trade deficit and smaller inventory replenishment shaved 1.7 percentage points off the economy’s growth rate.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

His hair was a little disheveled, and it looked as if he hadn’t shaved since the night before.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Who knows where the trend began, but I remain clean shaven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Washbourne, 40, is described as white, male, about 5ft 6ins, slim, with brown hair and clean shaven.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

Smith is described by police as white, bald, and clean shaven.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

The Sheriff’s Department is looking for the suspect, who was described as a Black male, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 180 pounds and with a shaven head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

But walking down the street again with the wind fresh upon his shaven skin, he said to himself, “It is only once.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

She decided to embrace her new look, by shaving her head after she lost some of her hair from chemotherapy.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Cancer has a way of taking things you never realized you’d grieve,” she wrote alongside a video of the parents shaving Whimsy’s head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

On Instagram, Gillette posted a picture of its stadium logo covered in what looks like a mound of shaving foam with the caption, “At least we got to choose how we cover it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

That’s not the case for James Stolis, a chemical engineer in Las Vegas, who declared independence from his follicles last July 4 by shaving his head on a mountaintop in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

I handed him things, and I sharpened his pencils, which he kept in a shaving mug.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly