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Recent Examples of dog-eared Sometimes they’ve been torn, smudged, folded or dog-eared. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025 My copies of these books are now dog-eared to death and as appropriately stained as favorite kitchen tools. Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 Novel as the experience is for her, the spookiness surrounding it is as familiar and dog-eared as scripture: creepy nuns, ominous robed figures, lots of cheap jump scares. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024 Tampa Bay is still a very good team, even if a bit dog-eared around the edges of its elite personnel. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog-eared
Adjective
  • But owners Five Dallas Partners — which shares ownership with CBZ Management, the company that controls several dilapidated properties in Denver and Aurora — have taken no action to secure the property, Chamberlain wrote.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Eagles were able to rest their starters and still coast against the dilapidated Giants.
    Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Lawmakers also met to better understand the difficulties counties face in finding temporary placements for neglected and special needs children.
    Christina Lengyel | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In the century that followed, amputation remained a neglected area of medicine.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • With tattered cardboard signs directing cars and a makeshift sense of professionalism, the system was clear.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Footage shown on local and national TV news showed a tattered segment of the pier floating on the swell with at least one person walking across the debris.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Dog-eared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog-eared. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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