skin
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“When I get to that moment in the locker room before a very big match,” Ms. Sharapova tells Ms. Kumar Nair, “I feel like it’s my second skin, like it’s part of my body.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Financial Times leads with US vaccine-maker Moderna's shares more than doubling in value after it reported successful trial results for an experimental skin cancer therapy.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“This is an individual-level based vaccination for somebody’s individual tumor,” said Michael Christopher, a dermatologist in Tucson, Ariz., who specializes in early detection of skin cancer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer, with more than 330,000 new cases diagnosed worldwide in 2022.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“No skin off my tail. I’ll quit mushrooms and find some other business and you can just abandon Deadwood.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The menu includes salt-and-pepper chicken skins with sweet-and-sour sauce and something called the Viet Dip, a sandwich served with a little cup of pho jus.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Because the skins retain biological material, parchment can preserve genetic clues alongside the words written on its surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Wilson got us to look at ourselves by looking far beyond ourselves in other cultures and other universes and under our own skins.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The skins contain natural oils, and garments not kept in a temperature-controlled environment -- ideally off-season in cold vaults -- can dry out and disintegrate.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
We were risking our skins in this hornet’s nest for some nuts?
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
With the help of neighbors, he skinned it, securing enough meat for the entire settlement for several days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
It was her husband returning from the day's hunt, a large plastic bag in hand containing a skinned seal.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Bietz denied accusations that he skinned the skull of the sea lion before the confrontation with Diaz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
After the show aired, Wood, 31, said she was "not thin skinned" and understood that SNL was about "caricature".
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
Skin tingling, I sprinkle salt like Grandpa taught me on the skinned squirrels, adjusting the grill above the flames.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
I don’t actually know what a Nappa is, but clearly Genesis is skinning the good kind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Recurring themes are everywhere - Daizen Maeda skinning James Tavernier, Kyogo Furuhashi outfoxing Rangers defenders at one end and Cameron Carter-Vickers bringing authority at the other.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
The vegan son of a butcher, this Dick Turpin, like the prince in “Holy Grail” who just wants to sing, is more interested in doing something big and creative than in skinning rabbits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
That suggests use as a trophy or lion-skin rug, rather than a simple byproduct of skinning the animal for food.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
