shear
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"We've got professional shearers coming, it's not everybody who can shear," Williams said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
To him it was a sin not to shear the sheep.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Its work, largely paid for with federal funds, has allowed for major improvements in the prediction of extreme weather events and a reduction in the number of air accidents caused by severe wind shear.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The whole logging process—from feller-bunchers that cut and stack tree trunks to delimbers that shear off the branches—could be operated by one person on-site with remote help from others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
In two years he had learned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how to care for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Other items such as an Oxo wooden spoon set, a Le Creuset wine stopper and Wusthof shears - all bought on Amazon - were photographed inside the motorhome.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
“I can’t imagine how frightened those horses must have been,” Brad said as he cropped the grass tightly around the marble stone with garden shears.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
Gabe’s smell was almost worse than the nightmares about Mrs. Dodds, or the sound of that old fruit lady’s shears snipping the yarn.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
As of Monday, the closure had sheared 16 million barrels from daily oil supplies, according to JPMorgan Chase analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
And so the men counted to three and they pushed, and Plymouth Rock sheared in half.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
The paper also considers how a sheared flow, which occurs when adjacent particles move at different flow speeds, can impact the pedestal height and width.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
On the return journey, a bolt sheared on what is now more widely known as the Penydarren loco, causing the boiler to leak.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
When everything they tried failed, Mama sheared Anya’s hair off.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Ann Van Eetvelt, a specialist from Lurgan Sheep Vet in Aberfeldy, says there are a number of potential animal welfare issues which arise from not being shorn.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Sherwood also steered Villa away from the drop but, shorn of influential stars Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph in the summer, was sacked after six successive defeats left them bottom in October.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Viollet-le-Duc’s conception of Gothic architecture, shorn of religious, sentimental and romantic associations, was radically modern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter such as Johnny Cash or John Darnielle returns to over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
She’d been shorn of memory as brutally as she’d been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
A farmer has swapped sheep shearing in Dorset for WWE wrestling in the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
A backlight sufficient to be useful would disturb the laminar flow of air rushing across the rear decklid, increasing shearing turbulence and drag at the back of the car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
"They've lost their livelihoods, they've lost their shearing sheds, livestock, just absolutely devastating," he told national broadcaster ABC.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
To that end, the dire wolf was bigger than the grey wolves that existed at the same time, with large, shearing teeth carrying an extremely strong bite force.
From Salon ● May 15, 2025
The fourth sliced his stick in two, splintering the wood and shearing through the lead core.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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