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Recent Examples of shin
Nicol Natale, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Jose Siri may need a stint on the IL after fouling a ball off his left shin on Saturday night.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
Jump your feet forward so your knees are below your hips, shins off the floor.
—Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
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Noun
The midi silhouette provides plenty of coverage that skims the shins and the adjustable tie-waist, front buttons, and collar are eye-catching and sophisticated.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Jose Siri may need a stint on the IL after fouling a ball off his left shin on Saturday night.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
This length is most often used by mountaineers due to the use of taller boots that can rub against your calves and shins more dramatically.
—Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
Jump your feet forward so your knees are below your hips, shins off the floor.
—Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shin
Noun
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In the video circulated by TMZ, Lovato wore a strapless bridal gown with a dramatic thigh slit while the groom was decked out in a black tuxedo.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
25 May 2025
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Female mummies have been found to have markings on their thighs, abdomen and breasts.—
Serena Billett,
Charlotte Observer,
20 May 2025
Verb
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As its formula guards skin against damaging UV rays, a hydrating combination of hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and ectoin plump, smooth, and calm redness and irritation.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
3 Apr. 2025
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The formula is a gel-cream that hydrates skin with such ingredients as collagen-boosting copper peptides, smoothing saccharide isomerate, moisture-retaining sodium PCA, and calming zinc oxide.—
Danielle Sinay,
Glamour,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Moose calves are born in a three- to four-week window from the end of May to mid-June and will often lie in the willows while mom is off grazing.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
28 May 2025
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What’s happening 155th Silver Spurs Rodeo: Events include bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing, team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.—
The Christian Science Monitor,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Aug. 2022
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The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.—
DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer,
NOLA.com,
25 Jan. 2021
Noun
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There’s the Levi’s x Sacai denim jacket featuring the same custom sunspot gold shanks based on vintage Levi’s hardware, the Levi x Sacai Denimx Matelasse twill reversible blouson, and two variations of the Reversible Blouson, available in indigo x black or blue x khaki nylon exteriors.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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To make birria without a stovetop, lamb shanks are cured in salt and pepper for 24 hours, seared on induction burners, braised overnight in the oven with guajillo chiles, tomato, vinegar and spices, kept warm in a sous-vide machine, then crisped in the oven before service.—
Priya Krishna,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Shin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shin. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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