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shin

[shin] / ʃɪn /
NOUN
leg part
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During these sessions, participants walked on a treadmill while wearing a device on the shin that provided vibration feedback.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Andrea says special needs teachers are now using PPE such as bite-proof gloves, shin guards and face shields which they would only need occasionally in the past.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

It is the kind of place where you can lose an hour just looking at shin guards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Yet the Frenchman did not push through on to the shin of the Newcastle player.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

It looked vulnerable, soft, like an easily wounded shin, full of bone but susceptible to the slightest pain.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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