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stung

[stuhng] / stʌŋ /


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Natural oils such as tung and linseed are delicious food for mildew and algae.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Fox 7 was so shokked he just sat with haunch on ground and tung lolling out, along with the wide eyes of being complete lee astonish.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

The amphibians are onomatopoetically named for the sound they make, which starts out with a whining tung and ends with a croaking gara.

From National Geographic • Aug. 27, 2015

He also proposed extreme spellings, such as wimmen for women and tung for tongue, that never caught on.

From Time • May 12, 2015

Not when we were afraid, but when we were wide awake and lucid, my mother funneled China into our ears: Kwang- tung Province, New Society Village, the river Kwoo, which runs past the village.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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