shorn
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As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
However, the sale means the group is shorn of its most profitable division, raising the danger that it falls short of its revenue growth forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Many nations do not send athletes to it, while others take skeleton teams, shorn of their leading lights, whose winter focus instead lies on training for lucrative spring road races or prominent summer track opportunities.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
It means a seam attack shorn of 1,308 Test wickets, with the shoulder injury that prompted Chris Woakes' international retirement taking away another 192.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
One end of wire Werner crimps around a shorn pipe standing diagonally up from the floor.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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